Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE
Date	2016-04-11 11:30 +0200
Organization	Netfront http://www.netfront.net/
Message-ID	<pe7stc-ih9.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 2016-04-11 07:47, Mike Spencer wrote:
> I've had to replace a failed 80G IDE drive with a 150G SATA drive.
> 
> Writes to the new HD seem to be hogging memory, stalling X response
> and other HD reads such as causing  music playing from a .wav file on
> HD to stutter.

...

> These, which write the HD, cause the problem:
> 
>     cp USB-stick/bigfile  ->  hda3
>     cp hda3/bigfile       ->  hda4

hda3? Not sda3? Wow.


> I have P4 CPU, Slack 11, 2.4.33 kernel and 256M of RAM with which this
> problem didn't occur before replacing the HD.

2.4.33 kernel? That's quite old, might explain your problem. 2007.

> The new SATA HD plugs into one of two ports on the IBM mobo labeled
> "SATA IDE 1" and "SATA IDE 2".   The drive is seen by Linux as hda,
> not sda. (Some on-mobo emulation I don't know about?)

Or this.

Even my IDE disks are seen as /dev/sdX in all my systems, never
/dev/hdX. But I have not seen a 2.4 kernel in years, except in embedded
machines.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.


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HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-11 02:47 -0300
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-11 04:19 -0500
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-13 00:06 -0300
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-04-13 17:56 +0000
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-13 13:26 -0500
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-11 11:30 +0200

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