Jack Malmostoso wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:20:09 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:The kernel is a custom 2.6.20.6 kernel with preemption installed (I note that because it's not in the default powerpc kernel from etch)Preemption on PPC is (was?) a bad bad idea.Try using the Debian stock kernel for a while and see if things get better.As for the rest, check that DMA is activated on your hard drive. Which is extremely slow anyway... I have an iBook so I know what I'm talking about :)
DMA is indeed active. udma5, accoridng to hdparm.However, I am going to to install the Etch release and see how that performs. I have a friend who just did so with an iBook (G3, I think) and is quite pleased. If he was having these problems I think he would have spoken up.
Andrew