Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270877AbTHFTcD (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:32:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270967AbTHFTcC (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:32:02 -0400 Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.114]:17933 "HELO smtp017.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270871AbTHFTbn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:31:43 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Frank Van Damme Subject: Re: [2.6] system is very slow during disk access Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:31:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308062052.10752.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> <200308062129.26371.frank.vandamme@student.kuleuven.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <200308062129.26371.frank.vandamme@student.kuleuven.ac.be> Cc: linux kernel mailing list , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308062131.46017.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1319 Lines: 52 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:29, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Maybe you just didn't enable DMA on them. Use hdparm -v /dev/foo to find > out. DMA is on. root@lfs:/home/mb> hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 14244/16/63, sectors = 80418240, start = 0 root@lfs:/home/mb> hdparm -v /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 14244/16/63, sectors = 80418240, start = 0 - -- Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft ] Penguin on this machine: Linux 2.6.0-test2 - i386 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/MVeeoxoigfggmSgRAkVfAJ4/SIBNLy7v4+E5OgA/z4FjMcKFfgCfTF94 orXbTJpyryLpKXwjzkZoyqU= =4jnz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/