Well, as it seems, the problem was/is not that simple. After having changed my harddrives to use dma (yes i double checked them all) I still get the lagging mouse etc. if i put some load on my system. E.g. if i compile something in a terminal in kde, then my load goes up to 2.5 (is this unusually high ?), and my mouse starts only getting updated 2 times/sec, same is with keyboard input. With SuSE i never ever got a laggy mouse (ok, maybe with load 10 or something). My System: AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz FSB 133 512 MB PC-133 2-2-2 Cl2 3 HD's, all (relatively) current: root@notch pwk # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hde /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.65 seconds =196.92 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.74 seconds = 36.78 MB/sec /dev/hdb: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.67 seconds =191.04 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.76 seconds = 36.36 MB/sec /dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.67 seconds =191.04 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.58 seconds = 40.51 MB/sec Running loop-aes 1.6i on gentoo, on Kernel 2.4.19 Hope you can help Peter Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003 14:03 schrieb Peter Kirk: > Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003 10:20 schrieb Jari Ruusu: > > Peter Kirk wrote: > > > i have my system partitions (all except /boot) encrypted with loop-aes. > > > Now, this setup worked fine on my SuSE 8.0 distro (of course copying > > > was a bit slower then without encryption). Now, I installed gentoo on > > > my system, using the same encryption method. The Problem: When copying > > > files, in fact everytime i get disc activity my system goes very > > > 'sluggish', meaning i type stuff, and see it all appear 2 or 3 sec > > > later....meaning i move the mouse and it doesnt, but jumps after a > > > while. I was wondering why this could be, and how I might fix > > > it....Changing the Priority of the loop? processes from -9 to 0 didnt > > > help very much :(. > > > > What does command "hdparm /dev/hdX" output? > > ^ replace with a b c d e (or whatever). > > > > Regards, > > Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> > > Ok ok, > > > you are right again :-) DMA is not enabled yet, I will do so (stupid me) > > Thanks for helping > Peter -- The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. -- John Steinbeck [Horse racing *is* a stable business ...] - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
