From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pc stalling when processing large files [2.6.9]
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:11:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041223131135.GA11257@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0412231205470.28376-100000@muur.intranet.vanheusden.com>
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:09:10PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a P-III with 384MB of ram running kernel 2.6.9. It has one IDE disk.
> When processing a large mailbox with sa-learn (the bayes learn tool of
> spamassassin), the system gets very unresponsive. Like: when typing commands
> on it via ssh, the system doesn't respond several times for seconds (1 or 2
> maybe 3). Then when I continue to type, it gets a little better but when
> idling for say 10 seconds it gets unresponsive again. The large mailbox is
> aprox 200MB.
Sounds obvious, but can you show the output of hdparm /dev/hda ? You have
IDE DMA support enabled, but does the kernel recognize your IDE controller?
What you describe vould very well be caused by DMA being switched off for
IDE.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-23 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-23 11:09 Folkert van Heusden
2004-12-23 13:11 ` bert hubert [this message]
2004-12-23 13:49 ` Folkert van Heusden
2004-12-23 13:50 ` bert hubert
2004-12-23 15:48 ` Folkert van Heusden
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