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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 19:39:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3268527.Z0KyPzEdVc@energy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA80589.5020403@hadt.biz>

Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 19:25:29 schrieb Michael Hampicke:
> > nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now?
> > 
> > The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays
> > keyboard
> > input? That is just idiotic.
> 
> It was just an idea, but maybe there's something wrong on the hardware
> side? Broken cable, hard drive about to die?

no, and this problem has been there since Suse 6.2 and kernel 2.2

> 
> Have to checked the SMART data of your hard drive lately (error log,
> relocate sector count). You can also run some tests with smartctl.

of course

> 
> Or monitor your IO with dstat or iotop. iotop tells you which app causes
> high io load.

cp of course

> 
> Or maybe you kernel is using some generic and slow driver for your ata
> controller instead of an optimized one?

seriously...

> 
> Personally I never had IO problems on linux unless theres was something
> wrong with either the hardware or the kernel driver.

good for you

> 
> Hope that helps.

no

-- 
#163933



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-16 15:29 [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs Alex Schuster
2012-02-16 16:04 ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-16 17:34   ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-16 17:45     ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-16 16:23 ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-16 16:49   ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-16 17:21     ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-18  3:13       ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-18  2:13 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-18  5:45   ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-18 13:25     ` James Broadhead
2012-02-18 17:04       ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-19  0:05         ` Urs Schutz
2012-02-19  0:35           ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-07 12:41             ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-07 16:26               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-07 16:44                 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-05-07 17:14                   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-07 17:25                     ` Michael Hampicke
2012-05-07 17:39                       ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2012-05-07 22:56                     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-07 23:13                       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-07 23:56                         ` walt
2012-05-08 15:05                           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-07 18:52                   ` [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2012-05-07 17:39               ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-07 21:11                 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-09 19:44                   ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-09 20:38                     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-10  1:00                       ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-10  2:09                         ` Dale
2012-05-10  2:40                           ` Adam Carter
2012-05-10  7:53                             ` Dale
2012-05-13  0:34                           ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-13  0:47                             ` Michael Mol
2012-05-13  0:58                               ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-13  1:04                                 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-17 13:21                                   ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-17 13:51                                   ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-17 14:13                                     ` Michael Mol
2012-05-17 16:05                                       ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-20  9:35                                     ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-10  3:59                         ` Adam Carter
2012-05-10  8:02                           ` Michael Hampicke
2012-05-10 22:45                         ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-10 23:23                           ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-12  1:40                     ` [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of] Alex Schuster
2012-05-12 13:36                       ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-12 15:05                         ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-12 15:41                           ` Norman Invasion
2012-05-13  8:56                             ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-13 18:12                               ` Michael Mol
2012-05-13 20:53                                 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-13 21:01                                   ` Michael Mol
2012-05-13 21:33                                     ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-13 22:03                                       ` Michael Mol
2012-05-13 23:27                                         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-05-13 23:54                                           ` Michael Mol
2012-05-14 22:28                       ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-15 10:24                         ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-07 20:43               ` [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs Dale
2012-05-07 21:09                 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-07 21:16                 ` Stroller
2012-05-08 20:43                 ` Simon

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