Re: tlug: Sparc RedHat 5.1 tidbits

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> 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). 

Okay, this rings a bell.  Didn't someone boot with a NFS root filesystem
and still experience the slowdown?

> I didn't have the problem, so I never bothered to pursue it.  :-) 

Yeah, me too ;)

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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