Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4.9-ac10 IDE access slows as uptime increases | Date | Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:33:17 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I've been noticing this for months, and thought I was crazy. But I > just verified it. > I ran a program that's a GUI app/front-end to a data base, on the > local drives. It took seconds to access a record.
Is the data base doing I/O directly to a block device and not using O_DIRECT for one question
Second question is what is in your IDE logs. The IDE layer will change down speeds when it hits a repeated problem (eg a DMA timeout) so if need be will switch back to PIO or to MWDMA.
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