On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:14:00 -0500 "Martin G. McCormick" <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
> Marko Randjelovic writes: > > Did you try with another kernel? > > Well, indirectly. As I mentioned, the system has always > exhibited this behavior slightly for several years through a > number of kernels. The biggest change, though, was when I > changed out the conventional 10 GB hard drive for a slightly > larger flash drive that was also about 15 years newer. > > I think it is some sort of bus contention problem. The > system has two IDE controllers. One has the boot drive on the > master position plus a second conventional hard drive on the > slave position for /home. The other IDE controller has a CDRW > drive in the master position and a second CDRW drive in slave. > I can always make the sound problem worse by doing > disk-intensive activity on the controller that has the two fixed > disk drives. If I were you I would download kernel source to experiment with relevant kernel options, but first try: 1. use hdparm to see if your hard drives support DMA and if it is activated; 2. change IO scheduler to 'deadline' by adding to kernel boot line "elevator=deadline". Kind regards -- http://markorandjelovic.hopto.org One should not be afraid of humans. Well, I am not afraid of humans, but of what is inhuman in them. Ivo Andric, "Signs near the travel-road" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140918192558.4dcbd...@sbb.rs
