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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #211

Comment 211 for bug 620074

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In , theholyettlz (theholyettlz-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #196)
> There is another bug in 2.6.17/18-??, which gives a poor disc performance,
> while running the SATA controller on a ICH8M (or equal?) platform in
> compatibility mode, which gives a high i/o wait time too and lets this bug
> appear.
>
> There are dependencies between cpu-power, disc throughput, task switching
> time
> (eg. clocksource) and this bug.

This is interesting, since my notebook has an ICH8M stuck in compatibility mode (no BIOS option). I'll see how it compares to my other notebook with an ATI-IXP chipset.