Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 May 2009 19:47:43 -0700 | Subject | Re: unresponsiveness on linux desktop during file copy | From | Mark Knecht <> |
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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Satish Eerpini <eerpini@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > yeah I get similar numbers even in the absence of the desktop manager > , when I tried to copy from a virtual console. > the stats look something like this : <SNIP> > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) > SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) <SNIP>
I googled on "82801GBM/GHM slow" and found a lot to read.
Is DMA for this drive enabled? It seems that some others didn't have it enabled by default, or maybe at all. I didn't real the threads very far.
hdparm -d1 /dev/sda
I think hdparm works for most SATA drivers. man sata to see the other things you can check in terms of configuration.
Clearly, since you see the same thing in a console with X never having been started says it's not a GUI issue.
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