Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 03:50, Adam Williamson kirjoitti: > I've just started noticing this since I came in from work, about > 10:30pm. Since then I've updated to kernel 0.5mdk and a few other minor > updates (lm_sensors 2.8.0 and a couple of other small things). Certain > things, between which I can't find much of a link, seem to slow the > system down *massively*; the two I've noticed most so far are running > urpmi --auto-select, and saving a file with Galeon. When doing either of > these, the system becomes incredibly sluggish to respond - if I bring a > window forward, for instance, I can watch it redrawing in separate > stages, with several seconds between each, and the whole system just has > the very sluggish response you'd expect if 100% CPU were being used or > something. top does not report 100% CPU usage, though. Anyone else > seeing this? Any idea what the problem is?
Just a thought... what does : # hdparm -iv /dev/hda tell you when it happends... here is mine (just an example of what you should see) /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) ... Thomas
