Re: tlug: Sparc RedHat 5.1 tidbits

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 09:41:08AM +0900, Christopher Sekiya wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> 
> > My ELC didn't.  I really think it had more to do with the SCSI devices on
> > your chain (and how they behaved, especially wrt disconnect) that made
> > the difference.
> 
> Huh.  I hadn't heard that one.  I was fairly certain that the problem was
> the whacked vm code in the 2.0 series.  Now I'll have to go back and check ...

This was one of the possiblities mooted on the sparclinux mailing list in
the beginning of '97.  There were a couple of changes in the kernels following
the 9609xx version that people were claiming didn't slow down on their
susceptable machines... both in the memory management and in the SCSI
handling (and its need to allocate memory on queues of commands).  I didn't
have the problem, so I never bothered to pursue it.  :-)

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