Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 11:21 -0800, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> My system is unresponsive and nearly unusable during period of high
> disk I/O. hdparm reports it's using UDMA5 (ATA100), so it looks like
> everything's up and running. I have a nForce 220-D motherboard
> (A7N266-VM), a new 160 GB Maxtor ATA133 drive, and an 80 wire IDE
> cable. I've compiled the amd74xx driver into the kernel.
> 
> ATA100 suggests a maximum throughput of 100 MB/s. What I should I
> expect to see with hdparm -t?   I'm seeing 40 MB/s.
> 
> Please cc me in your reply. Thanks,


you report a problem to the kernel mailing list suggesting the kernel
does something suboptimal, but you entirely forgot to mention which
kernel you are using ;) Could you fix that ommision please?

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