Re: idle=poll needed??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
04 Nov 2002 13:42:43 +0000


On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:51, Reed, Timothy A wrote:
> All,
> We currently have setup, Dual P4-Xeon 2.2G machines running 2.4.19,
> with 2GB of RAM.
> Is there any performance reasons to keep the idle=poll in the append
> line? I have not seen any degraded performance with the option, but some of
> our subs are having performance issues with it in.

It actually depends on what you are doing whether it has any impact.
Also of course if power use is a consideration

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