[CS-FSLUG] The Fast-Food Syndrome: The Linux Platform is Getting Fat

[David M.]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 12:26 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> That reminds me Jukka, I got an answer from the SUSE list people about
> the problem I had with the distro, they said that if you have nodma
> enabled that will bog down your system (terribly so it would seem), I've
> had to use nodma with lots of other distributions because of my odd
> hardware and I've never had this problem so as far as I'm concerned its
> another bug.
>
> Jukka Y wrote:
> >On Thursday 10 June 2004 18:35, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> >>However, you can't do that with SUSE/Fedora/RH.
> >
> >Can you explain this a bit more? What prevents tweaking them? I am
> > interested this because (as you may have seen from my previous postings)
> > I'm still stuck with Suse :-).

How could the option of dma being on or off be a bug? To me thats a choice.

David M.