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Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: |
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> On Saturday 30 June 2007 08:29, Dale wrote: |
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>> Any ideas? Is it Seamonkey or something else? |
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>> Thanks for any help. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> You can check how much processor time takes kernel(top or htop) - if kernel |
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> loads cpu too much then it is probably fs io. |
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I have used top and it appears to be Seamonkey using the CPU so much. |
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However, it is getting slower and slower as I download pics or get them |
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off my camera. It now takes almost 15 seconds to save a picture on this |
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thing. Right now there is about 9.4Gbs on there and about 40,000 files |
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and almost 900 directories all on a separate partition. I'm getting |
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suspicious of the drive or that something is goofy with the kernel |
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settings. I searched through /var/log/messages and I saw no errors |
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regarding that drive at all. I do have that smart thing installed. I |
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see where it changes temps but that is it. No errors that I can find on |
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any drive. |
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This is the screen for the IDE drive section of my kernel: |
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> │ │ <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ <*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ --- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on |
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> IDE drives │ │ |
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> │ │ <*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ [*] Use multi-mode by |
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> default │ │ |
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> │ │ <*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ --- IDE chipset |
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> support/bugfixes │ │ |
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> │ │ <*> generic/default IDE chipset |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ [*] PCI IDE chipset |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ [*] Sharing PCI IDE interrupts |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ <*> Generic PCI IDE Chipset |
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> Support │ │ |
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> │ │ <*> RZ1000 chipset |
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> bugfix/support │ │ |
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> │ │ [*] Generic PCI bus-master DMA |
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> support │ │ |
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> │ │ [*] Use PCI DMA by default when |
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> available │ │ |
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> │ │ <*> AMD and nVidia IDE |
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> support │ │ |
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All the removed ones are disabled. This rig has a Abit NF7 ver 2.0 |
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mobo. I am using this kernel: |
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> root@smoker / # uname -r |
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> 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 |
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> root@smoker / # |
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It would appear that my settings and that DMA is working fine. Here is |
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the timings from hdparm: |
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> root@smoker / # hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb |
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> /dev/hdb: |
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> Timing cached reads: 936 MB in 2.00 seconds = 467.99 MB/sec |
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> Timing buffered disk reads: 144 MB in 3.02 seconds = 47.70 MB/sec |
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> root@smoker / # |
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I have gkrellm installed and there doesn't seem to be any major drive |
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activity when I am doing this. I'm not copying something or even |
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playing a CD while doing this so I wouldn't think it was "busy" doing |
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something else. |
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I'm open to ideas. If you need more info, let me know. May even try a |
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newer kernel too. :/ |
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Thanks for any help you all can provide. Me stumped, which is normal |
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for me. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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