Re: How to make apps play nice?
i experience the same symptom. which is that i can't enable dma for my
via board. it can be seen with 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda'
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> On Saturday 17 December 2005 01:58, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> > I'm running Debian amd64 on an Asus board with an AMD64 3200+ and a gig of
> > ram.
> >
> > This box is mainly used as a home media center and file server. Most
> > of the time the system monitor shows that CPU usage is around 23% and
> > ram usage between 40% and 80%. But for some reason when I copy files
> > (cp or scp network copying) it seems to take over - CPU usage shoots
> > up to 100% and everything else starts stuttering. Same thing also
> > happens with running find command or other programs. If I am listening
> > to music it starts skipping, if I am watching video, it basically
> > stops. Why is this? I know I can use 'nice' to change the niceness of
> > a program, but I want to know how to alter settings so that things
> > like cp, scp, find, etc do not hog up the entire CPU all the time, not
> > just on a case-by-case basis.
> >
> > Any help or advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > Craig
>
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