I have noticed the same behavior when running Norton DiskEdit - the hard
drive light stays on and the CPU is pegged until I exit DiskEdit. Dosexec
is the culprit according to top.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:21:05 -0400
> From: Dan Swartzendruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] speed problems not solved :(
>
> At 10:55 AM 6/13/2001 -0700, Rob Walker wrote:
>
> > >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:55:11 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber
> > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> >Dan> nope. this is not a constant thing, and has nothing to do with
> >Dan> what apps are running. i can have the system completely idle
> >Dan> (win98 that is). i then do something like right-clicking on an
> >Dan> icon, and occasionally have to wait for 20-30 seconds for the
> >Dan> context menu to pop up.
> >
> >when you run the test described above, does your hard drive light come
> >on for the duration? I suspect that linux has swapped out the memory
> >which holds the win4lin stuff, and so has to read it all in from the
> >disk.
>
> i can't imagine why win4lin would have been swapped out - the host has
> 256MB ram, and this happens even when nothing is happening on the
> linux side. also, when i see this happen, dosexec process is railed at
> closed to 100% CPU usage - this doesn't seem to jibe with swap activity.
>
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