Thanks. I'll try the newer kernel and see how it goes. I'm suprised that
vm is the culprit, since the disk isn't beating hard when the work is
ongoing. But I certainly can imagine how vm could be the culprit.
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
=>"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
=>>
=>> I'm glad to see this issue raised here. I'm running the ancient 2.3.99pre8
=>> and I find that cdparanoia goes *very* slowly. It used to run with the
=>> read light on steady, but now it flashes briefly with long pauses in
=>> between. Any ideas?
=>
=>Steven,
=>People have been trying out new "vm" strategies in the latter
=>Linux 2.3 development series kernels. That may have helped people
=>with 4 GBytes of RAM on their high end systems but it slowed down
=>performance on "normal" machines. Only with the recent
=>lk 2.4.0-test1-ac21 are we back to anything like lk 2.2 series
=>speeds for normal machines.
=>
=>Doug Gilbert
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