Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:02:01 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM |
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On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:22, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> It could potentially slow it down a lot more than a few percent. >> The main effect you would see is heavy low memory consumption (LowFree: >> going down to almost nothing) and very heavy cpu consumption.
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:01:45PM +0100, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > Right on. LowFree drops and when it reaches almost nothing the system > more or less goes freezes. > The DAC960 driver is not a SCSI driver so this means that there is > something wrong with the PCI-DMA transfers, right? > Replacing the DAC960 with another RAID-kontroller will not help because > it will use the same PCI-DMA transfers, right? Any hints on how I can > mend this?
Actually, this suggests lowmem starvation due to bounce buffering.
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