Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:21:47 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0 performance problems |
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Thomas Molina wrote: > > I just finished a couple of comparisons between 2.4 and 2.6 which seem to > confirm my impressions. I understand that the comparison may not be > apples to apples and my methods of testing may not be rigorous, but here > it is. In contrast to some recent discussions on this list, this test is > a "real world" test at which 2.6 comes off much worse than 2.4.
Are you sure you have DMA enabled on your laptop disk? Your 2.6.x system times are very high - much bigger than the user times. That sounds like PIO to me.
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