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

[David Aikema]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 09:26 am, 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.

I seem to recall that they rewrote quite a bit of the IO subsystem of the 
kernel with 2.6.  Have you tried running with a 2.4 kernel?  (As far as I 
know even all 2.6-default distros still have a 2.4 kernel on the install 
discs as a backup)

David Aikema