Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Sylvain Chouleur <neolistic@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Solved : System slowing when hard disk access
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:19:28
Message-Id: BAY104-F8AA15AED052BAA0C77487A36D0@phx.gbl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] System slowing when hard disk access by Alexis Lahouze
1 You're right!
2
3 It was the DMA which wasn't enabled.
4 Now, the system is very fast and I don't have any problems when the hard
5 disk is used
6
7 Thank you very much for your help!
8
9 Sylvain Chouleur
10
11 >From: Alexis Lahouze <xals@×××××××.org>
12 >Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
13 >To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
14 >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System slowing when hard disk access
15 >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:14:21 +0200 (CEST)
16 >
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20 >Hello
21 >
22 >Sylvain Chouleur a écrit :
23 > > Hello,
24 > > I am on gentoo since no long time, I have installed a complete system
25 > > (with
26 > > gnome) and I have a problem: I noted that when the system is working on
27 >the
28 > > hard disk (for exemple during a copy or an emerge), the system can't
29 > > almost do anything else (mouse very jerky, terms freezed, ...) and
30 > > generaly, I think that the system doesn't respond very quickly
31 > >
32 > > I know that the question is no precise but I don't see at all the cause
33 > > of the problem (cpu and memory are not very solicited)
34 >Have you activated hdparm support? This very looks like disks access are
35 >not in dma mode.
36 >
37 >There is a good howto for using hdparm:
38 >http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance
39 >
40 > >
41 > > Infos:
42 > > Laptop HP nx9005
43 > > AMD Athlon XP-M 1.78Ghz
44 > > ATI Radeon Mobility U1
45 > > kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r2
46 > >
47 > > before I had a debian and all worked very well ...
48 > >
49 > >
50 > > Thank you for your help!
51 >
52 >
53 >- --
54 >Alexis Lahouze - xals@×××××××.org
55 >Gradignan (Bordeaux) - France - Terre
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