On Monday 08 Sep 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: > Raj Mathur writes: > [snip] > > Now one of the things I'm facing is a slowdown of the system when > > it's doing disk-write-intensive activities. I believe this is > > because of the huge amount of RAM -- Linux buffers disk writes, and > > when it does start flushing the buffers to disk everything else > > freezes. Firefox, e.g. freezes for up to 20 seconds when the > > writes are in progress. > > I've 2 GiB RAM, 2 SATA disks. And I've not expected this issue, > unless I copy some big files and then execute 'sync' :) . Which > kernel version are you running anyways ? May be your SATA controller > is being used in some kind of compatibility mode. Debian recently > released a new kernel for new hardware[1], may be shifting to that > will fix the issue.
Running 2.6.26 (which I believe is the latest). And yes, the problem is exactly what you face when copying big files and then running sync, except in this case it's writing large data and then freezing when the internal, automatic cache flush happens. > [snip] > % fgrep System /etc/sensors.conf > label temp2 "System" > label fan2 "System" > > To confirm which one is yours go through that file, and refer to the > section corresponding to I2C chip your box is having. Hmm, I think I'll take this to the lm-sensors mailing list -- could be a bug in sensors. Have also asked Amit to check the corresponding temperatures on Winduhs machines using the same motherboard, let's see if that gives us any information. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
