Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 21:53:23 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: usb-storage nice value |
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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
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