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SubjectRe: Linux-2.2.0 bad VM behaviour "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=256k"
> I guess there is something wrong with the 2.2.0 vm... when I try this:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc bs=256k
>
> the system becomes very lazy...

I guess I found something: this unfortunate behaviour disappears
if I turn off IDE DMA mode. With PIO modes there is hardly any
swapping.

So the conclusion is the bug may be in DMA memory handling ?

Thanks,

Petri

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