I could be wrong on this, but I thought the point (or, a part of it at least) of DMA was to bypass the CPU when moving files; last night I copied 200GB of files and it totally ate the CPU during the processes. ext3 to ext3, both SATA (from SATA2 to SATA1)...
-- Slow SATA performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119730 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
