From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [2.6] system is very slow during disk access Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:31:42 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200308062131.46017.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> References: <200308062052.10752.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> <200308062129.26371.frank.vandamme@student.kuleuven.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200308062129.26371.frank.vandamme@student.kuleuven.ac.be> Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline To: Frank Van Damme Cc: linux kernel mailing list , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org -----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-----