The problem persists with 2.6.6 final, but get this: I was recompiling with preempt disabled (which didn't do anything to solve the problem), but during the compile, there were very few music skips / mouse skips. Not sure what that could mean though.. Justin On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:18:04AM +0000, Peter Chubb wrote: > >>>>> 'Justin' == Justin Pryzby writes: > > Justin> --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Justin> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > Justin> quoted-printable > > Justin> It feels to me like it always happens when the disk is > Justin> accessed (possibly just because I can _hear_ that), and it > Justin> seems like it happens when the disk hasn't been used in a > Justin> while. > > Try > 1. booting with elevator=deadline > 2. hdparm -u /dev/hda