Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Feb 2000 11:21:50 -0500 (EST) | From | Mark Hahn <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.15pre5, IDE and Athlon problem(s) |
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> > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/1 bs=1024k & > > > > which is the moral equivalent to a fork-bomb: it generates an overwhelming > > stream of requests to the same region of disk. > > Ehm, a simple mkisofs does a similar thing...
no: mkisofs is copying, and thus throttled.
> I've installed Andrea's "elevator-starvation-2" patch, and was fine. > Interactive response is much better, apparently without performance losses.
benchmarks?
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