DervishD wrote: > I'm having problems when reading/writing to external USB harddisks: > my *internal* harddisk stalls from time to time, so watching a movie > while copying data is a PITA (well, if the movie is bad, the leaps help > a bit...).
If the internal harddisk is source or target of these copy operations... ... > is there any way of modifying the pdflush behaviour so > large buffered writes are less "agressive" and doesn't block apps which > are just reading? ...then switching to another IO scheduler might perhaps help. # cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler # echo deadline > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= =---= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/