Linux On Mac

[Samuel Rydh]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 03:10:54PM -0400, Bill Fink wrote:
> Thanks for your efforts on this.  However, I've run into a problem.
> I haven't actually tried using SMP yet.  I thought I'd first try out
> the latest MOL on my existing setup, and used rsync to fetch it
> (recent files in the top level directory dated Apr 6 09:11).  The
> problem is that the new code is a lot slower.  With the released 0.9.68
> version of MOL, my MacOS 9.0.4 booted in about one minute, whereas
> the most recent 0.9.69 rsync code takes almost 6 minutes to boot.
> I'm running a UP 2.4.20-ben8 kernel, and running MOL in an X window.
> My system is a dual 500 MHz G4 with 768 MB of memory (MOL is given
> 256 MB).

That's odd. The new code should actually be slightly
faster on both UP and SMP.

Is it possible that you are using an old MOL kernel module? If you
built the rsync tree previously then you have to manually
rmmod the mol module. I believe the slowdown you describe could
occur if an old module is used with the userspace code...

/Samuel