Re: With Daniel Phillips Patch (was: aic7xxx with 2.4.9 on 7899P)

Sven Heinicke
2001-08-21T22:44:40Z

Great, with 2.4.8-ac8 I get no memory problems. Can you tell me what
file(s) where modified to fix this to I can look for the fixes in
future vanilla kernels?

Thanks! Now to work on the drive speed problem, it's faster with your
fix but still slower at writing then my IDE drive on another systems.

Sven

Daniel Phillips writes:
> On August 21, 2001 06:48 pm, Sven Heinicke wrote:
> > Yes, highmem was on, the stystem got 4G of memory. I turned off
> > highmem and got no messages apart from one:
> >
> > Aug 21 07:29:19 ps1 kernel: (scsi0:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64
> >
> > which I was getting before.
> >
> > Disk access is faster then before but still slower then the IDE
> > drive. Any ideas?
>
> Two separate problems, I think. I don't know anything about the aic7xxx
> driver but I can take a look at the highmem problem. First, can you try
> it with highmem enabled, on a recent -ac kernel, say 2.4.8-ac7.
>
> --
> Daniel