Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

[Mariano Kamp <mkamp@gmx.de>]

Hi,

 when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on the the same controller 
the whole systems stalls. I am running 2.4.19 on unstable.

  When renicing the copying processes it works ok, but I am not sure if that 
is the solution. And if that is, how would I do this efficiently. Looking a 
top and renicing by hand is a bit annoying to me ;-)

Cheers,
Mariano