Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.6 appears to be 3 to 4 times slower than 2.6.5. | Date | Tue, 18 May 2004 15:23:20 +0200 |
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On Monday 17 of May 2004 17:06, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Sorry to all, it turns out (in two separate cases I had two different > problems that affected the results). > > Case 1: No SMP turned on for CPU w/HT after fix (~4.78 seconds compile time > (2.6GHZ w/HT)) > Case 2: Box had 4GB of NON-ECC memory in it, only recognized 2.56GB, took > out (2) 1GB DDR DIMM's, and the speed returned what it should be. (~4.3 > seconds compile time (3.0GHZ w/HT)) > > The control box was a 2.53GHZ (533MHZ BUS w/NO HT) = ~5.3seconds > > I have not tested 2.6.6 recently, but in one of my tests I believe it > worked OK, ever since 2.6.6 removed my /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/mtab and > several other files, I do not wish to touch that kernel with a 10 foot poll > :-P due to the IDE disk flush/cache issue.
I told you this already: 2.6.6 IDE changes don't cause data corruption - but fixes some instead (that's why there were merged so quickly!) so stop spreading FUD and see http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2672.
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