Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:26:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:26:24 -0500 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.149]:64060 "EHLO moutvdom00.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:26:12 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Christian Asam To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.4.x] Writing to slow devices (MO, USB) blocks system Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:26:09 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have had this problem for a while now and was wondering, if there is some workaround or patch for it: If I write larger files (maybe >10M) to slow devices (I have a USB-1.1-HD and a SCSI-MO where this is a problem) the system freezes for a while: In X (4.1) the mouse only moves every couple of seconds, sometimes XMMS also is silent for a few seconds but not as often. After a while the freezes get more seldom but are still rather frequent. System: Duron 800 on KT133/686, IDE Disks, 768M Memory (but no high memory support >1G active), 2.4.13 (for some reason my serial digitizer (via gpm) dosn't work with newer kernels like 17 or 18). cu - 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/