On 5/26/07, Tommy Vercetti <[email protected]> wrote:
I was trying to get answer to my question around, but no one knows.
I do have DMA turned on, etc, yet - on extensive harddrive operations wait
You may have DMA turned on, but it may be ineffectual if you don't
have the right IDE driver handing your disk.
time is 90+% , which means that machine is waiting, rather than doing
something meanwhile. (I guess).
What does hdparm -tT /dev/hda say? If the numbers are reasonable
(~400MB/s for cache reads, ~25MB/s for buffered disk reads), then
you're just doing a lot of seeking on the drive, and that takes a long
time. (Drives can seek about 100 times a second. If every seek reads
only 4k of data, that's 400k of data processed per second, or a lot of
time spent with the CPU waiting on I/O.)
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