Peter Davies wrote: > I am running 2.4.18-3. What kind of kernel is this? One from RedHat? > I am getting terrible performance. I noticed in the boot.log that my / > fs is ext3 and my kernel does not support ext3. I have tried to If this is a RedHat kernel and you didn't recompile it, than it definitly has ext3 support. What makes you believe that it doesn't have ext3 support? > recompile the kernel with ext3 support. It did not seem to work. (e.g. > lags for 40 or so when i am unzipping multiple files) Firstly, is this > likely to be the case of my problems? How can i fix it? Do I just > recompile the kernel or do I need to install some modules? It might be just simplier: Do you have DMA turned on for your hard disks? Check with 'hdparm -v /dev/hda' and look for 'using_dma'. Refards, Juri _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
