Re: *massive* slowdowns on 2.4.1-pre1[1|2]

[David Riley]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:17:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>     You have to realize that stability takes precedence over
>     EVERYTHING.
> 
> Are you sure his desciption describes only disk-slow down? Seems to
> me something else is going on... why would speaker beeps take longer?
> Maybe some kind of PM weirdo?

My problem had nothing to do with disk access. Keyboard input isn't
slowed by disk access.  I knew that... In any case, sub-486 speeds
aren't attained through using PIO instead of UDMA... my 486 uses PIO
disks anyway, so it's moot.  The real culprit was ACPI, which is having
some temporary problems.  I turned it off and everything's great
(thanks, Andrew).