Re: Hard disk slows linux system
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 21:56, Tal Eisenberg wrote:
> Hi, is it normal that hard disk activities such as cd-ripping, big file
> conversions and just plain copying take an enormous amount of my system
> resources? All these things slows the system so much that even the mouse
> isn't moving smoothly. This doesn't happen in WinXP where i can do all these
> things without slowing the system at all.
>
> I'd really like to know if i'm missing something.
>
> I'm using a 2.4.18 kernel patched with the low latency patch (for audio work)
> on debian woody. The computer is an Athlon XP1600+ with 512MB and 120GB+10GB
> HD.
Are the hard disks using DMA?
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