hmm, on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:05:14AM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that > But is that an interrupt issue or does the disk simply suck?
the interrupt issues i reported about this machine are gone (atm). interrupts in top showed normal level as far as i can tell. this disk is of course the highest udma breed (actually it is ahci, but last time i checked it wasn't found by the kernel) but if it's doing PIO, doing anything that touches the disk makes everything go slow-mo. just send me any commands you want me to execute and collect the output... -f -- if people listened to themselves more often, they would shut up.
