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From: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@freenet.de>
To: Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.4 : 100% CPU use on EIDE disk operarion, VIA chipset
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:24:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <406FC621.1090507@A88da.a.pppool.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.ljb660n.d2ofa9@ifi.uio.no>

Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> 
>> > It turned out that on disk-intensive operation, the "system" CPU usage
>> > skyrockets. With a mere "cp" of a large file to the same direstory
>> > (tested with ext3fs and FAT32 file systems), it is 100% practically all
>> > of the time !
>> But you're right, 2.6.4 is slower than 2.4.25. See the thread "Very poor 
>> performance with 2.6.4" here in the list.
> 
> As recommended there, I have tried 2.6.5-rc3-mm4.
> 
> No change. Still 100% CPU usage; the performance seems teh same.

Yes. But it's curious:
Take a tar-file, e.g. tar the compiled 2.6 kernel directory. Than, untar 
it again - the machine behaves total normaly. And the 2.6-kernel is about 
23% faster than the 2.4-kernel.


> Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
> 
> P.S. Sorry for making all comments into answers to your letter. I just
> don't want to break the thread. 

No problem - it's easier to read with comment directly in the text.


Regards,
Andreas Hartmann

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-04  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.g80v5s8.b2ofhi@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.idlmgtf.1pluljl@ifi.uio.no>
2004-04-04  8:07   ` 2.6.4 : 100% CPU use on EIDE disk operarion, VIA chipset Andreas Hartmann
2004-04-05  2:12     ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found] ` <fa.ljb660n.d2ofa9@ifi.uio.no>
2004-04-04  8:24   ` Andreas Hartmann [this message]
2004-04-04 19:57     ` Mikhail Ramendik
2004-04-05  2:14       ` Bill Davidsen
     [not found] <fa.ld6rcgc.1lhmd9q@ifi.uio.no>
2004-04-03 11:24 ` Andreas Hartmann
2004-04-03 12:51   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-03 14:12   ` Mikhail Ramendik
2004-04-04  8:02   ` Mikhail Ramendik
2004-04-02 21:54 Mikhail Ramendik

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