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

[N. Thompson]

The bug wasn't DMA being off but the way it slowed down the system, I had to 
use nodma with lots of other distributions and it never had an impact on any 
of them except SUSE Linux 9.1.

On June 10, 2004 11:27 am, David M. wrote:
> 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.
>
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