[gentoo-user] System slowing when hard disk access

Hello, I am on gentoo since no long time, I have installed a complete system (with gnome) and I have a problem: I noted that when the system is working on the hard disk (for exemple during a copy or an emerge), the system can't almost do anything else (mouse very jerky, terms freezed, ...) and

Re: [gentoo-user] System slowing when hard disk access

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Sylvain Chouleur a écrit : Hello, I am on gentoo since no long time, I have installed a complete system (with gnome) and I have a problem: I noted that when the system is working on the hard disk (for exemple during a copy or an emerge),

Re: [gentoo-user] System slowing when hard disk access

Try first hdparm. Secondly try modify the latency values in the kernel. PD: I think the problem could be that DMA isn't active (hdparm -d 1 /dev/disk) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list