Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

[Sean Neakums]

commence  Alan Cox  quotation:
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 21:43, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> > [e-mail] (Alan Cox) writes:
> > > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 21:21, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> > > > I'm running tar (the regular version not star) right now on an Athlon @
> > > > 850. The fs is ext3 and the disk is a scsi drive.
> > > > So far, tar has been running for 17 min 25 sec, and that's what top says:
> > > > CPU states:  1.7% user, 98.2% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> > >                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > 
> > > Why are using PIO mode devices ?
> > 
> > I'm using SCSI :
> > Jul 13 16:35:50 mcs kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> 
> Intriguing. Something horrible is happening on your system to see 98%
> system time off a bus mastering DMA controller. It should only look like
> that on things like an AHA152x 

I saw something similar when I tried untarring the file, and assumed
it was due to trying to put many thousands of files into a single flat
directory.

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