> > Sorry for this inaccurate measurement, but my ear suggests that
> > kernels from 1.3.67 on seem to be slower when accessing the disk.
> > It's just from the sound of the disk...
> >
> > Ulrich
>
> I must agree, though I know it's not scientific. The "grinding" I hear leads
> me to believe that there is no chaching going on..... as if each file is being
> read bit by bit.
>
Yes! Yesterday I've made a boot disk with a real power kernel (>900k
uncompressed). Running it on a machine with 32MB I noticed that the
kernel always reads from the root disk (although it should be a
ramdisk, I'll have to re-check that). But I thought that there could
be a bug somewhere.
Ulrich