Re: [Evolution] evolution taking 5+ minutes to shut down

[Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vR movingparts net>]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:44, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I also run XFS on my home desktop and until I recently rebuilt my kernel
> with UDMA support, any amount of disk I/O would bring my machine to its
> knees.

*nod*

> I suggest you make sure that your kernel has UDMA support built in.

mine does.

> a quick and dirty check might be to do (as root):
>
> /sbin/hdparm -c -d /dev/hda1

I have this in my startup script:

hdparm -u 1 -a 8 -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda

and I get this when it's run:

 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  1 (on)
 readahead    =  8 (on)

=:/

Any other thoughts?  =:)  I'm leaning towards notzed's hypothesis of
many, many small temporary files being created, then growing in a big,
big way, then being deleted.

> If you get something like the following output:
>
> /dev/hda1:
>  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
>  using_dma    =  0 (off)
>
> then this is what your problem is. After I rebuilt my kernel with UDMA
> support, I get:
>
> /dev/hda1:
>  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
>  using_dma    =  1 (on)
>
> or some such. this is what you want :-)
>
> Jeff
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