On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 09:02, Marc Lucke wrote: > I have posted this before and gotten precisely nowhere. So I thought I > would put it back up and also put it out there that a fix in the next > kernel update would make me very happy. > > The problem: when my disk is very busy - like when using dvdauthor - my > computer stops responding to everything else. > Relevant Hardware: Gigabyte 8IPE1000Pro2 m/b + SATA disk (ICH5, 865PE) > History: > (0) had FC1 running with self-compiled > 2.4.24 kernels and the system > saw my SATA disk as hde > (1) system booted from FC2 CD just as it did for the FC1 by loading > ata_piix (& necessary dependencies) > (2) system would not boot from installed kernel > (3) thanks to the Fedora IRC channel I found out how to modify the > initrd to get my system to load ata_piix > (4) system now uses libata and sees my SATA disk as sda > (5) with my hdd recognised as hde (see note 0) has hde my system would > respond to smtp & web requests a bit more slowly, but it still worked. > As sda it will actually timeout connections to port 25 under load > (6) posted all sorts of requests to this list but I think step 3 is > beyond most on this list, let alone this problem > > I'm not complaining. Just if someone exists that knows above can > respond or else it can it be added to some developer's wishlist? I'd > love to get FC2 working like I had FC1 working with kernels greater than > 2.4.24 > > > Marc I had same problem with mencoder. Why don't you renice dvdauthor to a lower priority so that your mouse and other bits of the OS can still function? It worked beautifully. :-) I used renice 5 -p 3203 (3203 being the PID for mecoder at the time) -- ****************************************************************** Chadley Wilson Soon 2 B RHCE Linux Rocks Welcome to my world. Enjoy the adventures of Linux *************************************************** Linux is easy, lazy people critise, curse and fail.
