"Quenten" == Quenten Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Quenten> Well I finally got a "good" Debian install or at least a
Quenten> compelete one anyways and everything is working fine
Quenten> (only took three times trying to install it lol) But for
Quenten> some reason when I do anything such as untar a large
Quenten> archive or even ftp to my computer a bunch of files my
Quenten> cpu jumps to 100 percent or around that. I have a 733mhz
Quenten> PC I have had up to 512megs of memory in it at times
Quenten> trying to figure this out. It started with the 2.2
Quenten> kernel so I compiled the 2.4-18 kernel and am using that
You probably need to turn on DMA for the hard drives. Some thing like
'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' should help. Basically read 'man hdparm'. The
things you want are to ensure that DMA is on (-d flag), multcount is
set right (-m) and I/O support is 32 bits if you have relatively new
hardware (which it sounds like you do).
Cheers!
Shyamal
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