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"Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <prakashkc@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Can you try with the patch that is in the parent of this thread? The
>  > above doesn't look that bad, although read performance could be better
>  > of course. But try with the patch please, I'm sure it should help you
>  > quite a lot.
>  > 
> 
>  It actually got worse: Though the read rate seems accepteble, it is not, as 
>  interactivity is dead while writing.

Is this a parallel IDE system?  SATA?  SCSI?  If the latter, what driver
and what is the TCQ depth?