--On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 4:51 pm -0500 "Ben Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 10:08:11PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote: >> >> About kernel, I will release the next bootdisks with 2.0.35. Is it enough >> reliable for *all* sparc workstations, or should I switch to 2.1 ? > > The 2.0.x kernels suffer performance wise on the sun4c's i have used them > on. For example it took about an hour for them to run mke2fs on my 2 gig > drive, while the 2.1 kernels went at it in about 15 minutes (or less). > > 2.0.35 works well on sun4m's tho. Oh. So *that's* the famous sun4c slowdown. I noticed that too, when I installed my machine. I just assumed that my disks were slow :-) I've never really noticed the slowdown when the machine's in use, but I use it very lightly. Jules P.S. I keep trimming this thread to -sparc - it's not really relevant to -devel. /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | Debian GNU/Linux - "Microsoft *does* have a year 2000 problem - | | and we're it!" (paraphrased from IRC) | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
