From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Schumacher Subject: Re: new kernel = megaraid performance cut in half Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:59:01 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CE40175.20701@aptalaska.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from aptalaska.net (ancnat1.apto.aptalaska.net [12.104.83.61]) by larryboy.aptalaska.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4GJ1mg00791 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 11:01:48 -0800 (AKDT) List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >>>I am running 7.3 (upgraded from 7.2) and I feel that the 2.4.18 kernel >>>with the new VM code is actually inferior to that of 2.4.9-31. I have lots >>>of memory (1.2 gig) and lots of disk access, and I see more swap and worse >>>interactive performance on 2.4.18 (redhat supplied kernel) as compared to >>>the redhat supplied 2.4.9-31 for 7.2. >> >>Hmm, the reason why I upgraded to 2.4.18 in the first place was to fix a >>bunch of problems with quota. I wonder if 2.4.9-31 will work with the >>quotas correctly, I was on 2.4.7. > > > Quite a few quota race fixes are after 2.4.9. Its also going to depend > entirely on your workload what works best. Hmm, sounds like I am going to go with 2.4.18 on redhat 7.3 then. I really don't want any quota trouble. schu