On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 03:36:55PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> After unpacking any tarball (with tar xvfz, for example), or
> after Gnus for Emacs fetches my mail from disc, I happened that
> kupdated becomes mad for few seconds, taking almost all the CPU
> power so I can't do anything else that waiting for it to finish.
Did you verify that you are using DMA transfers for your IDE disk?
# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on) <---- check this
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 2480/255/63, sectors = 39851760, start = 0
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Nate Straz nstraz@xxxxxxx
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