Sean de la Haye wrote:
Folks,
I just installed LFS 6.2 and a good number of the latest development
release blfs packages. I noticed that while uncompressing, compiling,
or installing software in the console, that my mouse sometimes becomes
slow to respond. I'm using GPM 1.20.1. I did see this issue while
using the LFS LiveCD to setup the system initially. Now that I've got
XFree86 and KDE up and running successfully, I've noticed the same
thing happens to the mouse there. In addition, after installing XMMS,
I've found that playing CDs or MP3s and streaming audio will stop and
hang in the middle of me browsing with Konquerer or compiling software
in Konsole.
My first thought was that there was performance issues, but I'm
running on an Athlon XP 2800+ with 1 gig of RAM and a GeForce 6600GT
(On a NForce2 MB). The only weak link is the hard drive. It's 15GB,
4-5 years old, and formatted with ext3 (I haven't installed hdparm
yet). After some research, I found out that when I run xmms as root
and set the priority to anything less than 0, it seems to prevent the
audio from failing.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean de la Haye
Hi,
lets look at the hd first. So get that hdparm going.
For comparison, my hdparm shows...
hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=WDC WD600BB-75CAA0, FwRev=16.06V16, SerialNo=WD-WMA8F1637068
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117187500
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: device does not report version:
* signifies the current active mode
I think of interest is the udma mode, BuffSize and WriteCache.
I don't experience problems similar to you, therefore, if your
numbers are at least close to mine or better, then we can rule
out your hd.
Shawn
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