On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:42, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on the the same controller > the whole systems stalls. I am running 2.4.19 on unstable. > > When renicing the copying processes it works ok, but I am not sure if that > is the solution. And if that is, how would I do this efficiently. Looking a > top and renicing by hand is a bit annoying to me ;-) apt-get install hdparm
hdparm -c1 -d1 /dev/hd? if that helps... then you need to tune your system better.
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