Re: Z61p unusable during USB file transfer with openSuSE-10.2 64bit

On Saturday 21 April 2007 09:51, Frank Fiene wrote:
> Hi anybody!
>
> I've configured hourly rsync backup between my home partition and an
> USB hard disk.
>
> Nothing special only
> rsync -va --delete /home/ffiene/ /media/disk/ffiene/
>
> After rsync is started the system (Thinkpad Z61p mit Dual2 Core 2GHz,
> 4GB RAM, 100GB HD) is unusable slow. Has somebody the same problem
> and a solution? I am using the 64bit version of openSuSE-10.2 of
> course!
>
> Same problem with simply copying files to USB HD.
>
> The notebook feels slower then my old T42p with Centrino
> 2GHz/2GB/100GB.

OK, i've found somthing more:

find / -name Azureus.jar

has the same problem, so all access to the SATA drive turn my TP into a 
brick during the "find".

So, XFS, SATA? What might be the problem! How to test?

SATA are found and dma is turned on, of course:
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000032500 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000032580 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000032600 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 66
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000032680 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 66

The speed seems also good:
hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   4890 MB in  2.00 seconds = 2447.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   96 MB in  3.00 seconds =  37.99 MB/sec



Help!!!!
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