On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 16:36, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:24:19PM +0100, Per Buer wrote:
> (..)
> > There seems to a problem with IO and high memory. Suddenly IO
> > performance will degrade dramatically (throughput of about 50KB/s).
> > Booting the machine with "mem=2048" remedies this.
> > We have tried replacing the memory with another make - no luck.
> > Any hints?
> 
> Could you send out a dmesg and a config file?

Sure.

We have tried two kernels on this server. A plain 2.4.18 (no patches)
and 2.4.22 with the RMAP VM (we thought this might be related to the VM)
and the brk()-fixes. No such luck. :(


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