[ILUG] Confused mount ?

[John J. Allen]

Niall O Broin wrote:

> 


Can't help with the ejectable mounted CD, really weird. You're
not using supermount?

> 
> P.S. Interactive response on my box suffers when I do such a dd. I've an
> idea it's IDE related. Any more ideas ?
> 
> 

Yep its also kernel related; some kernel versions, and indeed some 
builds of the same kernel with different options can produce better
results with IDE devices than others; its all related to the kernel
spinlocks.

One particular 2.4.x kernel was a disaster for me; XMMS would just 
starting jerking all over the place when there was heavy disk, or
network activity.

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