Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:21:03 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Very bad interactivity with 2.6.0 and SCSI disks (aic7xxx) |
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Stefan Foerster <stefan@stefan-foerster.de> wrote: > > But as soon as I do a > > while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=1048576 ; rm test > ; done > > on my SCSI disk, the system becomes completely unusuable after a few > seconds.
I've been running an aic7xx-based desktop on 2.5/2.6 for ages, no such problems.
A kernel profile would be needed to diagnose this. You could use readprofile, but as it may be an interrupt problem, the NMI-based oprofile output would be better.
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