On Monday 02 April 2007 01:12, jan kalcic wrote: > Hi People, > > openSuSE 10.2, never had a problem with filesystem but suddenly it seems > it has become "bad" as it takes something like 10 or more seconds to > open a file, especially the biggest ones, and in the meanwhile it > doesn't allow to do anything else but wait. I've already run fsck > (ext3) to check it but no error is shown and yet I still have big > troubles working with big files (>100MB). > > In addition, during the wait, the hard disk sounds like it is doing such > a big work that it's so busy it can't even move my mouse. Quite strange. > > Could it even be an hardware (hard disk) problem?
How are you working with the files? Is this for all files or just some you open in a particular program? Perhaps this program wants to read in the entire file, which is why it takes so long? Regarding the slow speed and problems doing anything else: are these IDE hard drives? Did you check with hdparm to make sure DMA is enabled on the drives? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
