Something I have been thinking about, My computer can be near unusable if I am doing too much I/O tasks at once (let's say writing 0's to one drive, while running a backup on another [using two hard drives]). Programs that do not use hard drives at all are almost unusable.
[and if you are curious why I was doing that, Was recovering data from a dying harddrive for a friend, and wanted to ensure the "new" ancient harddrive (40GB) I salvaged was stable]. Compared to earlier systems, my machine feels like a powerhouse (AMD 890GX w/ Integrated Graphics, Phenom ][ 945 processor [X4, 3GHz], 4GB 1333mhz Ram, 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD). Was surprised when I realized I can slow it down without even using the processor. although, i recall my AMD Duron 800Mhz system felt like a powerhouse as well... but mycommon workload seems to consist of openbox, firefox, urxvt, vim, and compiling software packages. What am I seeing? What defines the limit of I/O Traffic on a system? -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
