From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:44:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:44:30 -0400 Received: from abasin.nj.nec.com ([138.15.150.16]:48650 "HELO abasin.nj.nec.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:44:15 -0400 From: Sven Heinicke MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15234.58438.146372.874293@abasin.nj.nec.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:44:22 -0400 (EDT) To: Daniel Phillips Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: With Daniel Phillips Patch (was: aic7xxx with 2.4.9 on 7899P) In-Reply-To: <20010821172029Z16065-32384+285@humbolt.nl.linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20010820230909.A28422@oisec.net> <20010821150202Z16034-32383+699@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <15234.37073.974320.621770@abasin.nj.nec.com> <20010821172029Z16065-32384+285@humbolt.nl.linux.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Great, with 2.4.8-ac8 I get no memory problems. Can you tell me what file(s) where modified to fix this to I can look for the fixes in future vanilla kernels? Thanks! Now to work on the drive speed problem, it's faster with your fix but still slower at writing then my IDE drive on another systems. Sven Daniel Phillips writes: > On August 21, 2001 06:48 pm, Sven Heinicke wrote: > > Yes, highmem was on, the stystem got 4G of memory. I turned off > > highmem and got no messages apart from one: > > > > Aug 21 07:29:19 ps1 kernel: (scsi0:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64 > > > > which I was getting before. > > > > Disk access is faster then before but still slower then the IDE > > drive. Any ideas? > > Two separate problems, I think. I don't know anything about the aic7xxx > driver but I can take a look at the highmem problem. First, can you try > it with highmem enabled, on a recent -ac kernel, say 2.4.8-ac7. > > -- > Daniel