On 12/02/08 04:36, Slim Joe wrote:
This is a problem that I've learned to live with since I first installed
a SATA hard disk. It afflicts two different systems, one running
Ubuntu and the other Debian.
When executing commands or programs on large files (> 100 MB),
the system becomes unresponsive. Among such commands are:
(1) sha1sum -c dvdimage.sha1
(2) genisoimage dir/ > dvdimage.iso
By unresponsive, I mean it takes far much longer for subsequent
commands to execute. Iceweasel takes tens of seconds to pop
up. When I type text into a window even in a low-resource program
like vim, it takes several seconds before the text appears. The
system, in short, appears to hang, at least until the program
doing the large file access finishes execution.
Some info about my Debian installation:
Disk is a 500 GB hard drive found at /dev/sda.
$ lsmod | grep ata
ata_generic 10116 0
libata 165472 2 ata_generic,ahci
scsi_mod 160760 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
dock 14112 1 libata
$ uname -srvm
Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 8 18:25:23 UTC 2008 x86_64
I suspect this is either a scheduling problem or a module conflict.
Is there some kernel magic or option I need to disable or enable to
make this problem go away? If I remember correctly, I didn't encounter
this problem when I was using PATA drives with DMA enabled.
How much RAM do you have? Your disk cache could be getting flushed
or RAM pushed to swap, thus requiring "stuff" to be re-read from disk.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
What different abilities do I have?
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