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Mr.Grim
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:04 am Post subject: Writing to hard drive = 100% cpu? |
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Hey guys,
Whenever I save, download, open or write anything big to my hard drive it spikes my cpu usage to 100%. This is really annoying when listining to music and have it chop through the song whenever somthing finishes downloading or emerging, or doing pretty much anything. I'm using Reiser4, there must be a way to stop this behavior, please help. |
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didl
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Have you checked that the drive has DMA enabled??
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/sbin/hdparm /dev/xxxxxx
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Mr.Grim
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heh, thanks. It turns out I didnt have the right chipset enabled in the kernel so hdparm was failing. Everything runs very smooth now  |
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