Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262107AbVANT6A (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:58:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262086AbVANT5m (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:57:42 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:9993 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262061AbVANT5g (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:57:36 -0500 Subject: Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O From: Arjan van de Ven To: Shaun Jackman Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <7f45d9390501141121269b42b2@mail.gmail.com> References: <7f45d9390501141121269b42b2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:57:30 +0100 Message-Id: <1105732650.6042.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 4.1 (++++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on canuck.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (4.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.3 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains a numeric HELO 1.1 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] 2.5 RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK RBL: Sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 22 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? - 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/