Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:54:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:54:19 -0500 Received: from c0mailgw.prontomail.com ([216.163.180.10]:13960 "EHLO c0mailgw13.prontomail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:54:02 -0500 Message-ID: <3BF3C8DC.C8FE24B8@starband.net> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:53:33 -0500 From: war X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: System Locks Temporarily When Untarring Large Files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Forgot to mention. Type of Drive: The hard drive is a 40GB IBM-DTLA-305040. Speed of Drive: When many apps are open I get: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.55 seconds = 25.10 MB/sec When I am in single user mode, I get 29.50MB/s. Drive Information: # hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 5005/255/63, sectors = 80418240, start = 0 - 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/