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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:38:42 +0100
From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  linux' IO performance sucks
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=EF=BF=BD wrote:
> So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the
> cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time
> - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for
> any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stop=
s
> playing, because the machine does answer the read-requests.

Is this an IDE disk? Sounds like you don't have DMA enabled. Check with=20
(e.g.) hdparm -d /dev/hda

Daniel
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