Thanks for your message. I've just had a chance to try it on Alpha 6. The bug is gone, as far as I can tell. At any rate, repeating the original test (for ((i=0;i<10000;i++)); do echo $i > /dev/null ;done), completes in about 1/2 second, which is now perfectly OK. Thanks for your help - Richard
-- kernel performance is *very* slow with 8GB RAM on AMD64. 6GB is fine. kernel 2.6.22-8 x86_64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
