From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261227AbULWNLh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:11:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261225AbULWNLh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:11:37 -0500 Received: from outpost.ds9a.nl ([213.244.168.210]:60079 "EHLO outpost.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261227AbULWNLf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:11:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:11:35 +0100 From: bert hubert To: Folkert van Heusden Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pc stalling when processing large files [2.6.9] Message-ID: <20041223131135.GA11257@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mail-Followup-To: bert hubert , Folkert van Heusden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO