[ut2003io] Longer initial loading times in 2.6

Matthew Arnold marnold at ez-net.com
Sat Jan 31 22:38:57 EST 2004


Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
>>In kernel 2.6 ut2003 takes much longer to start than under 2.4, I've 
>>experienced this with Neverwinter Nights as well and I think these 
>>problems are related, also see this thread I found in the forum:
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if something like the "anticipatory i/o
> scheduler" in 2.6 is killing start times, but that's just a guess.
> 
> At startup, ut2003 does an _insane_ amount of disk i/o.

I've heard these complaints too, but have not experienced them. UT2K3 
and NWN start up just as fast in 2.6.1 and 2.6.2-rc3 (yes, I'm 
up-to-date :) ) as in 2.4.24 for me.

Matt



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