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From: Alexis Lahouze <xals@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System slowing when hard disk access
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:21:55
Message-Id: 11958.212.23.162.37.1175076861.squirrel@webmail.lahouze.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] System slowing when hard disk access by Sylvain Chouleur
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4 Hello
5
6 Sylvain Chouleur a écrit :
7 > Hello,
8 > I am on gentoo since no long time, I have installed a complete system
9 > (with
10 > gnome) and I have a problem: I noted that when the system is working on the
11 > hard disk (for exemple during a copy or an emerge), the system can't
12 > almost do anything else (mouse very jerky, terms freezed, ...) and
13 > generaly, I think that the system doesn't respond very quickly
14 >
15 > I know that the question is no precise but I don't see at all the cause
16 > of the problem (cpu and memory are not very solicited)
17 Have you activated hdparm support? This very looks like disks access are
18 not in dma mode.
19
20 There is a good howto for using hdparm:
21 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance
22
23 >
24 > Infos:
25 > Laptop HP nx9005
26 > AMD Athlon XP-M 1.78Ghz
27 > ATI Radeon Mobility U1
28 > kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r2
29 >
30 > before I had a debian and all worked very well ...
31 >
32 >
33 > Thank you for your help!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Solved : System slowing when hard disk access Sylvain Chouleur <neolistic@×××××××.com>