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Hello

Sylvain Chouleur a écrit :
> Hello,
> I am on gentoo since no long time, I have installed a complete system
> (with
> gnome) and I have a problem: I noted that when the system is working on the
> hard disk (for exemple during a copy or an emerge), the system can't
> almost do anything else (mouse very jerky, terms freezed, ...) and
> generaly, I think that the system doesn't respond very quickly
>
> I know that the question is no precise but I don't see at all the cause
> of the problem (cpu and memory are not very solicited)
Have you activated hdparm support? This very looks like disks access are
not in dma mode.

There is a good howto for using hdparm:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance

>
> Infos:
> Laptop HP nx9005
> AMD Athlon XP-M 1.78Ghz
> ATI Radeon Mobility U1
> kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r2
>
> before I had a debian and all worked very well ...
>
>
> Thank you for your help!


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