Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 (and others): heavy disk I/O -> poor performance

[bert hubert]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:39:35PM +0100, Fabio Coatti wrote:
> vmstat under load is the following, and config.gz attached. Of course I can 
> provide any other needed detail; many thanks for any hint.

Looks mightily like DMA is not on, even though you compiled the PIIX driver
in, which lists 
> 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller 

Can you show the output of hdparm /dev/hda ? Can you show dmesg?


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