Messages in this thread | | | From | Frank Van Damme <> | Subject | Re: [2.6] system is very slow during disk access | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:29:26 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 06 August 2003 20:51, Michael Buesch wrote: > Hi. > > I have massive problems with linux-2.6.0-test2. > When some process writes something to disk, it's very hard > to go on working with the system. > > Some test-szenario: > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./test.file > > While dd is running, xmms skips playing every now and then > and the mouse is near to be unusable. The Mouse-cursor > behaves some kind of very lazy and some times it jumps > from one point on the display to another. > When I stop disk-access, it works again quite fine. > > Would be cool, if you could give me some point to start > for tracking this down. > > Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed to linux-ide. Thanks.
Maybe you just didn't enable DMA on them. Use hdparm -v /dev/foo to find out.
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