Re: [2.6] system is very slow during disk access

Andrew Morton
2003-08-06T22:02:58Z

Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> I just tried to run the test-scenario on my other Linux-installation
> on this machine with kernel 2.4.10 and there the output of the program
> was quite smooth, even it dd was running und the system was still usable.

Please boot the 2.6 machine with "profile=1" on the kernel boot command line.

start the `dd', do a `readprofile -r', wait ten seconds, do

readprofile -m /wherever/System.map

then post the results.

Thanks.