Re: sync slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b
khromy (khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx)
Wed, 3 Jul 2002 00:03:01 -0400
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:57:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Possibly what is happening is that the /tmp partition lies on
> a part of the disk which has a higher platter transfer speed
> and this higher speed is causing retries or other problems
> further down the chain.
>
> You could have a fiddle with hdparm, try slowing down the
> interface speed. Try a different set of cables, too.
Just tried with dma disabled, same problem. I'm gonna try another IDE
controller and see if it still happens.
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L1: khromy ;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx
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