From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 14:09:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 14:09:46 -0400 Received: from server1.cosmoslink.net ([208.179.167.101]:13893 "EHLO server1.cosmoslink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 27 May 2001 14:09:37 -0400 Message-ID: <00c701c0e6d8$2b28ea40$4aa6b3d0@Toshiba> From: "Jaswinder Singh" To: "Chris Wedgwood" Cc: , , "Jaswinder Singh" In-Reply-To: <01052622193100.01317@linux.zuhause.de> <00a101c0e642$4f0791a0$52a6b3d0@Toshiba> <20010527224045.B3556@metastasis.f00f.org> Subject: Re: IDE Performance lack ! Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:09:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Chris Wedgwood" wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 05:16:42PM -0700, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > When ever i copy big data (around 400 to 700 MB ) from one > partion to another my machine do not response at all (i can not > work on another shell) during data transfer. > > Both paritions on the same spindle? That's going to suck no matter > what you do... I am having only one harddisk of 20 Gb , so i made four partitions on it. > but it shouldn't be as bad as you describe. But it is more bad then i described , especially when i do telnet/ssh from my home . I am not able to understand why Linux read and/or write harddisk after some time (after few hours ) , harddisk read/write leds keep on glowing for few minutes , even though nobody working on it and machine is in idle state. >Have you tried 2.2.x ? > yes i am taking about 2.2.12 . And in my 2.4.2 :- Harddisk read-write problem is also there , during harddisk read-write activity i took two hdparams and i got :- i . 963.76 kB/sec ii. 1.05 MB/sec and when my machine becomes normal i got :- 9.07 MB/sec and after hdparam -d1 i got :- 9.55 MB/sec But my problem is why linux boxes do not response for few seconds (sometimes) and especially during telnet/ssh it looks more worst and looks similar to Microsoft Windows :( there is problem in scheduling or what ? Thank you, Best Regards, Jaswinder. -- These are my opinions not 3Di.