From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SRRxb-0005ET-4q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 17:42:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BF9BE0866; Mon, 7 May 2012 17:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF99DE07EE for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 17:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so3886368wer.40 for ; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:39:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=uccvR5Z7/gYuQ60RgSdpa+SmquDbUcuq1uLnUTmFKFM=; b=MYdWYROmC3z892ugKRgGDxQw5345035QRV92y3Kb0FX5teC0tEOERHZbrKtpwW0xqL 861M3ZdYpPZI7DBM662v1SIyBwX+OehwVJUkWBjiS2htOgJsFte7bWZZE7j5vzLUSDvM Uh8Xa15kydtCviQxgbCsrV1BTnFdIOpQgQvmVZAlClg6wt0CW+XPM+2nMTdLUofSi4VL tY7aeIolLUJNbDwG3uiOmz7f8v/+qSHMwjOefFESz9L+jA3Q02N/JPu0sRlAvyMTViu4 gC0HJUXK0YMRUtvLWChgGRvG6I5+rceNSR4DUnkjH+34d4Dvj+1895loAG4GXC2OIkhj 2CMA== Received: by 10.180.84.4 with SMTP id u4mr25299646wiy.2.1336412376962; Mon, 07 May 2012 10:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p4FC61047.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.16.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e8sm23102675wiy.3.2012.05.07.10.39.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 07 May 2012 10:39:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Michael Hampicke Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 19:39:33 +0200 Message-ID: <3268527.Z0KyPzEdVc@energy> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.0.30; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4FA80589.5020403@hadt.biz> References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <3391082.RGBBzf0N4t@energy> <4FA80589.5020403@hadt.biz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: b4a5b7bc-7684-47ec-b62c-69a77b603e72 X-Archives-Hash: a055f271138a7e80adafcc240acdfee5 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