Messages in this thread | | | From | "Eloy A. Paris" <> | Subject | Re: IDE freeze for seconds | Date | 27 Nov 1998 14:12:13 GMT |
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Looks like the UP flu present in 2.1.129. Upgrade to 2.1.130 and try again.
peloy.-
Johnny Tevessen <j.tevessen@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi! > > I've got four IDE drives (hda..hdd). They're told to go to sleep > after a while. But when some application needs to use a file on one > of them, both the application itself and parts of the system (other > tasks) get frozen for some seconds if the given drive needs to spin > up first. > > I think this wait period should only affect the kernel fs thread > that tries to read from the hd, but not the applications? > > For example, on my 64MB box (w/o X running), an application > trying to write some few MBs to an IDE drive that's "sleeping" > will have to wait for a few seconds, although there's enough > memory that the fs cache could use to store the data to be written > in while the drive spins up. This doesn't happen here; the app > is held for seconds (in which it could calculate/parse more > data, but it can't, since it's held in a write() call). > > Ideas? > > This is 2.1.129 speaking. > > ciao, > johnny > -- > Trust no-one. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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