Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-11 Thread Mariano Kamp
> > 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. > > Wow. I have the same situation, (can't give you the specs, other than > to say the primary is a 16GB drive of 1999 era, and the secondary is a > 40GB

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-11 Thread Tim Connors
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:22:20 -0400: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:42:28PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote: > > | 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. >

Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-11 Thread Tim Connors
Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:42:28 +0200: > 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. Wow. I have the same situation, (can't give you the specs, other than to

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:30:54PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote: | Is there anyway, but a script, to mass renice process with some | shared characteristics like the command? What's wrong with a script? for pid in `ps aux | awk '/foo/ {print $2}'` ; do renice 19 $pid ; done or (since the renice

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-09 Thread Mariano Kamp
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 03:16, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Mariano" == Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mariano> Hi, when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on > Mariano> the the same controller the whole systems stalls. I am > Mariano> running 2.4.19 on uns

Re: renice (was Disk I/O stalling whole system ..)

2003-09-09 Thread Mariano Kamp
On Monday 08 September 2003 23:13, Geordie Birch wrote: > Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08 Sep 2003 22:09 +0200]: > > 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

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-09 Thread Mariano Kamp
> I've noticed similar effects here. Kernel 2.4.20, but only 1 disk. > If something pushes the disk hard then most thigns, including xmms > (which is streaming, not using the disk), becomes unresponsive until > the heavy disk usage subsides. (I had figured old hardware had > something to do with

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I posted the same problem a while back: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=d1efdfcc.0307310656.33999ec2%40posting.google.com&rnum=25&prev=/groups%3Fsafe%3Dimages%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26as_uauthors%3Dhugo%2520vanwoerkom%26lr%3D%26num%3D100%26as_scoring%3Dd%26hl%3Den BTW Knoppi

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mariano" == Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mariano> Hi, when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on Mariano> the the same controller the whole systems stalls. I am Mariano> running 2.4.19 on unstable. Do you have DMA enabled on your HD? hdparm /dev/hd? Cheer

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Greg Folkert
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 soluti

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:42:28PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote: | 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. I've noticed similar effects here. Kernel 2.4.20, but only 1 disk. If something pushes the

renice (was Disk I/O stalling whole system ..)

2003-09-08 Thread Geordie Birch
Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08 Sep 2003 22:09 +0200]: > 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 solu

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Mariano Kamp: > 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

Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Mariano Kamp
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