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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.x: iowait problem while burning a CD: SOLVED
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:38:07 +0100
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On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:35, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >
> > But I think to have found where the problem is:
> >
> > if I only create an ISO image of 672.4 MB I must wait more then 5
> > minutes... this means about 2.2 MB/s !
>
> How full is your filesystem on average?  If it has been around 90% or
> more, you might be having trouble with fragmentation.

YES.... it was a fragmentation problem ;-)

Now the ISO image creation speed is 9.2 MB/s....

Many thanks.

Bye

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	Paolo Ornati
	Linux v2.6.3