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- From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SCSI problems
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:35:01 GMT
- Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK
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- References: <1992Nov6.151023.29069@athena.mit.edu>
- Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
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- In article <1992Nov6.151023.29069@athena.mit.edu>, pjs@raster.Kodak.COM
- (Patrick Sweeney) writes:
- |> Hi,
- |> I am posting this for a friend. He is currently running Linux 0.98.3
- |> on a 486/33 Gateway 4M ram with a SCSI Maxtor 340M hd using and Adaptec
- |> controller. Running anything on the machine that uses heavy disk io is
- |> sllloooowwww (e.g. it took him 4 hours to compile the kernel).
- |> Swapping is disabled. Anybody else had this sort of problem and any ideas
- |> for solution outside of buying a new machine ;-)
- |> tnx
- |> if you have anything specific please send mail to
- |> bmt@raster.kodak.com
- |>
- |> - pjs@raster.kodak.com
- |>
- |>
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- Yes, I have the same problem but just not so bad.. kernel compilation is not
- too bad, but sometimes it can take about 10-15 secs to do a sync after
- just compiling a single kernel file & linking... My IDE drive is much faster.
- My configuration is TiKo 486/50 16M ram, 120M IDE quantum, Adaptec 1542B
- with 120M SCSI Maxtor. It seems like whenever the machine runs out of cache
- space and writes stuff to disk, or an explicit sync is done then things
- really freeze.
- I use the 0.98.3 kernel with TCP/IP & cd-rom extra bits.
- I don't have a swap file.
-
- Anyone any ideas what is going on?
-
- Ari
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