Tommy Vercetti wrote:
Hi folks,
I was trying to get answer to my question around, but no one knows.
I do have DMA turned on, etc, yet - on extensive harddrive operations wait
time is 90+% , which means that machine is waiting, rather than doing
something meanwhile. (I guess).
Can someone des
O> That's a big if right there. For servers it isn't a problem, few
> people can get capacity right to withing 10%, so you never let a
> server run full. Desktops/laptops on the other hand spend most of
> their lives between 80% and 100%.
Modern desktop patterns are very different to older ones -
> "AC" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AC> Provided they don't get within about 5-10% of full a lot of the
AC> time Unix file systems generally don't
That's a big if right there. For servers it isn't a problem, few
people can get capacity right to withing 10%, so you never let a
serve
Hi, Alan!
Alan Cox schrieb:
yeah, and they say unix FSes don't need defragmentation my bottom...
Provided they don't get within about 5-10% of full a lot of the time Unix
file systems generally don't - especially with preallocators. Reiser3 is
not a traditional unix file system, its very
> > That looks fine. Your filesystem may just be very fragmented. I'm not
> > familiar with how reiser3 filesystems age, so if you've had the system
> > installed for quite some time, it may be time to back it up and
> > reinstall. Dunno.
> yeah, and they say unix FSes don't need defragmentation...
On Saturday 26 May 2007 18:07, Ray Lee wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > in terms of driver, what do you mean ?
>
> The software driver that handles the specific chipset for that drive.
> The thing that shows up when you do an lsmod, assuming you have the
> driver c
On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
in terms of driver, what do you mean ?
The software driver that handles the specific chipset for that drive.
The thing that shows up when you do an lsmod, assuming you have the
driver compiled as a module.
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads:
On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:07:49 +0200
Tommy Vercetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyway 97% is quite high... what CPU / Hard Disk do you have?
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
> TOSHIBA MK8025GAS
>
> > What kernel version?
> 2.6.21.1
> > I/O scheduler? (cat /sys/block/DEVICE/queue/sc
in terms of driver, what do you mean ?
this is my lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller
(rev 21)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev
21)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/IC
Hi,
wait time is 90+% , which means that machine is waiting, rather than doing
something meanwhile. (I guess).
Yes, the machine spends its time waiting for the disk to do its things
as it does not have anything else to do. Nothing to worry about. If
you want, launch some CPU bound process at t
On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was trying to get answer to my question around, but no one knows.
I do have DMA turned on, etc, yet - on extensive harddrive operations wait
You may have DMA turned on, but it may be ineffectual if you don't
have the right IDE driver handi
On 26/05/2007, at 15:05, Tommy Vercetti wrote:
Hi folks,
I was trying to get answer to my question around, but no one knows.
I do have DMA turned on, etc, yet - on extensive harddrive
operations wait
time is 90+% , which means that machine is waiting, rather than doing
something meanwhile. (
On Saturday 26 May 2007 15:52, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2007 15:05:38 +0200
> It means that the disk is slow and the CPU is fast... so while the disk
> is busy seeking and reading data the CPU has nothing to do but wait for
> it.
>
> Idle == CPU has nothing to do
> Waiting == CPU has no
On Sat, 26 May 2007 15:05:38 +0200
Tommy Vercetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was trying to get answer to my question around, but no one knows.
> I do have DMA turned on, etc, yet - on extensive harddrive operations wait
> time is 90+% , which means that machine is waiting, rather than doing
Hi folks,
I was trying to get answer to my question around, but no one knows.
I do have DMA turned on, etc, yet - on extensive harddrive operations wait
time is 90+% , which means that machine is waiting, rather than doing
something meanwhile. (I guess).
Can someone describe to me , in more de
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