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 1SRRiN-0002SW-3q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 17:27:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 249ABE07CC; Mon, 7 May 2012 17:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (boss.hadt.biz [78.47.36.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611C8E06F4 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 17:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5B340C2B.dip.t-dialin.net [91.52.12.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58942B5CB for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 19:25:29 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FA80589.5020403@hadt.biz> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 19:25:29 +0200 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs References: <20120216162948.7eea6070@weird.wonkology.org> <7661425.dpRk3J8nd2@energy> <4FA7FBD5.9030103@hadt.biz> <3391082.RGBBzf0N4t@energy> In-Reply-To: <3391082.RGBBzf0N4t@energy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f6806c9c-752f-4975-831d-6bb024d800e9 X-Archives-Hash: 275c99dcf4b420eefb32d079744208b9 > 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? Have to checked the SMART data of your hard drive lately (error log, relocate sector count). You can also run some tests with smartctl. Or monitor your IO with dstat or iotop. iotop tells you which app causes high io load. Or maybe you kernel is using some generic and slow driver for your ata controller instead of an optimized one? Personally I never had IO problems on linux unless theres was something wrong with either the hardware or the kernel driver. Hope that helps.