Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:54:51 +0100 | From | Sean Neakums <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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commence Alan Cox quotation: > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 21:43, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > > alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 21:21, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > > > > I'm running tar (the regular version not star) right now on an Athlon @ > > > > 850. The fs is ext3 and the disk is a scsi drive. > > > > So far, tar has been running for 17 min 25 sec, and that's what top says: > > > > CPU states: 1.7% user, 98.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > Why are using PIO mode devices ? > > > > I'm using SCSI : > > Jul 13 16:35:50 mcs kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > > Intriguing. Something horrible is happening on your system to see 98% > system time off a bus mastering DMA controller. It should only look like > that on things like an AHA152x
I saw something similar when I tried untarring the file, and assumed it was due to trying to put many thousands of files into a single flat directory.
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