Erik Steffl wrote: > any ideas on what's going on?
login on an xterm from another machine and run top while you try that. recently i upgraded my firewall from a k6-3 400 to a p3-800 and doubled the memory to 512MB. but it was still much slower!! turns out the VIA ide chipset on the p3 board(asus) didn't play well with the drivers(Even the most updated ones from linux-ide.org). DMA was disabled, when doing a lot of file access load would get up to 10 to 15 making even typing in an terminal(either local or remote) very difficult to do. once i turned it on things improved. but i have since disabled the VIA controller and got a promise controller instead it seems to have much better drivers, or is a better ide chip..whichever. no more problems! course i run 2.2.x, but im sure the DMA problem can happen in 2.4.x as i've seen stuff on the kernel mailing list about it. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
