Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:38:00AM +0200, Sebastian Schaffert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I've seen data transfers of ~800KByte/s via NFS. Over my 10MBit coax > > network. From a Pentium 166 to a Pentium 133. I don't know any other > > network file

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-08 Thread Sebastian Schaffert
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > nfs isn't noted for being fast. > > I agree with most of what you say, but not with this. You can say a lot > about NFS, including that it's bad, insecure, to be thrown away and > changed by CODA or sth else, but not that it's s

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:42, Brian May wrote: > and I don't think you can really say that this is a slow computer either: 400MHz CPU, 10/15G disks, by today's standards that is rather slow. Compare it to an Athlon 1.2G with 46G drives... > So I can only conclude that something is very odd with thi

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Brian May wrote: > Unfortunately, this system already has DMA enabled by default: Then switch it off. Put hdparm -d0 /dev/hdx in some initscript, and it'll be off. I've had to do something similar to be able to read my CD-ROM while accessing the harddisk without read-errors

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:42:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > /dev/hda: > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > /dev/hdb: > unmaskirq= 0 (off) Turn those on and see if it helps... -- Martijn van Oosterhout http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Magnetism, electricity and motion are like a three-for-two special

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-06 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:13:00PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:12:46PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:35:05AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > > Also, if a computer is running slowly, but top says the CPU has plenty > > > of idle time and free RAM

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-05 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:12:46PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:35:05AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > Also, if a computer is running slowly, but top says the CPU has plenty > > of idle time and free RAM, is there anyway I can find out what is > > wrong? > > most likely sl

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:18, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I agree with most of what you say, but not with this. You can say a lot > about NFS, including that it's bad, insecure, to be thrown away and > changed by CODA or sth else, but not that it's slow. > > I've seen data transfers of ~800KByte/s via NFS