RH 2.4.18 vs RH 2.4.20 performance slowdown (SOLVED)

Dax Kelson Dax at GuruLabs.com
Thu Sep 4 19:05:56 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 09:40, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> Hey Dax.. say hi to Bryan for me.. and tell him he got the 40th digit of
> PI wrong.
> 
> Can you give the complete listing of the machines and I mean a COMPLETE
> listing.. We had something like this with newer hardware but found that
> we had two different revisions on Disk BIOS's. One set of machines were
> just plain slower by 1+ rotations of the drive... (I only know this
> because the guy who helped build 360's here worked out the speed
> differences to being an average of 1-3 disk drive rotations if the drive
> was really 7200 RPM).

He doesn't believe he got the 40th digit (after the decimal place)
wrong. He says it is 1. Ask him what his home zip code is though, and
that throws him for a loop. :)

Bryan sends congrats on the test scores.

I was able track down the cause of the slowness, it was lm_sensors. See
the following for details:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90116

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
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