On Saturday 27 May 2006 23:06, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
Laugardaginn 27 maí 2006 16:56 skrifaði Anders Johansson:
No, I would say the CPU has next to nothing to do with this. The job is so heavily I/O bound that your CPU power is almost irrelevant.
This has always been the problem, the I/O traffic has top priority, so no matter how you prioritise the darned doodly doo ... you're just gonna have to take a break for an hour. However a dual CPU core, does help ... although I didn't expect it to.
I still think it's a problem with your DMA settings. If you have DMA enabled on your hard drives, they can read from and write to your hard drives without using the CPU. Without DMA, on the other hand, everything has to go through the CPU, and that will seriously kill any system, regardless of the CPU power Compare with viewing DVDs, for example. With DMA, you can view a DVD on a relatively low end system. Without it, you get stuttering on even very good systems