� wrote:
So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stops playing, because the machine does answer the read-requests.
Is this an IDE disk? Sounds like you don't have DMA enabled. Check with (e.g.) hdparm -d /dev/hda
Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
