Hello,
I am having a problem with my machine. During periods of even small amounts of disk (or DVD burner) activity, the system becomes totally unresponsive -- the machine doubles as a server, so this is a bit of a problem.
For example, while burning a DVD (at 2X), it is virtually impossible to do anything else on the machine -- from the console, through a shell, or elsewhere. The system responds very slowly.
CPU usage is nowhere near high, and DMA is enabled for both devices. The hard drive is on /dev/hda, and the DVD burner is on /dev/hdd. (hdparm confirms it)
Any ideas?
EDIT: Some info:
Code:
$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP 2X (rev 27)