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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
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Subject: Re: pc stalling when processing large files [2.6.9]
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:49:15PM +0100, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> /usr/sbin/hdparm -c 3 -d 1 -X 69 -u 1 /dev/hda

And if you remove that line, does that help?

Also, output of 'vmstat 1' during stalls would be helpful.

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