Re: 40% IDE performance regression going from FC3 to FC5 with same kernel

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On 4/11/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >> try killing that one next; it may or may not help but it's sure worth a
> >> try (esp given the success of the first kill :)
> >
> >killing udevd doesn't bring any improvement - still at 20MB/s.
> >
> >Do you want me to file a FC5 bugzilla entry with the current info
> > or do you think there is something else that can be discussed
> > on lkml ?
> >
>
> Compile a non-initrd kernel and run it with the -b parameter (it's passed
> to /sbin/init). From that shell, run your speed test. What does it show?

All my kernels are non-initrd (as long as I can do this in Fedora,
 I will do that). How do I pass -b to init ?

Thanks,

--alessandro

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