Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Dane Mutters
Stefano, Agreed. I only used the one from kernel.org because I wanted to try out a newer kernel. I did not, however, have to do any patching to use the workaround. I don't see why it wouldn't work with a stock Ubuntu kernel. --Dane On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:15 +0100, Stefano Doni wrote: > Than

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Stefano Doni
Thanks Dave for your willingness, but I think it is definitely better to fix this into Ubuntu stock kernel, so that other user will benefit from it! 2008/10/28 Dane Mutters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stefano, > > I'm currently using this workaround with kernel 2.6.26.5, downloaded > from www.kern

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Dane Mutters
Stefano, I'm currently using this workaround with kernel 2.6.26.5, downloaded from www.kernel.org, and compiled/installed using "The Old-Fashioned Debian Way" ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile ). Attached is my most recent config file (compressed). --Dane On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 1

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Stefano Doni
Thanks Dane, is this workaround valid with stock kernels? Can other developers comment on this? I would not consider compiling my own kernel to be a solution for me, I firmly believe it is better to use the stock Ubuntu one. Thanks! 2008/10/28 Dane Mutters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I don't r

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Dane Mutters
I don't remember if I mentioned it on this list, but I submitted a bug (pertaining to Hardy) that at least SEEMS very similar to this a while ago. It has yet to be looked at. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/220349 I managed to find a workaround by way of recompiling the

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-28 Thread Stefano Doni
hat no one has looked at it yet: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/285595 > > > > Problem exists since Hardy, Gutsy IO bandwidth performance was > > *double* (measured, not feels). > > > > 2008/10/18 shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-27 Thread Charlie Kravetz
.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/285595 > > Problem exists since Hardy, Gutsy IO bandwidth performance was > *double* (measured, not feels). > > 2008/10/18 shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi all, > > There is a bug regardig poor performance hard disk IDE which has >

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-27 Thread shirish
Hi Stefano, It seems I missed that. Mine is an IDE hdd, is yours the same or a SATA disk. Please mention what kind of hdd it is on the bug which you have put up. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D7

Re: poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-27 Thread Stefano Doni
/10/18 shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > There is a bug regardig poor performance hard disk IDE which has > been filed a year back > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/96693 > . The bug seems to be still relevant as my experie

poor performance hard disk IDE

2008-10-18 Thread shirish
Hi all, There is a bug regardig poor performance hard disk IDE which has been filed a year back https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/96693 . The bug seems to be still relevant as my experience shows https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug