2.4 vs 2.6

[John]

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:24:21PM +0800, John <dingo at coco2.arach.net.au> wrote:
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>>2.4 kernels outperform 2.6 at disk I/O on all systems I've tried them on.
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>>The problem I originally noticed it on is a Gigabyte mobo, SiS chipset.
>>I think I reported the same sort of thing on my Acerpower 4400 (Via), 
>>but I don't care to reboot that atm to check it. Ditto my server (Also BX).
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>>I suggest others check their systems.
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>Providing a test suite would help
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hdparm -t /dev/hda{,,,}
For each drive.