Re: high load, but also high idle

[Cornelius Kölbel <cornelius koelbel gmx de>]

Hello,

thanks again.

Gordon Messmer wrote:

> Cornelius Kölbel wrote:
>
> > How could I speed up my hard disk.
>
>
> You could use DMA, but I believe that's on by default for chipsets 
> where it works. 

Yes I checked it, dma is on.

> > Or - how could I manage, that the one process in the background using 
> > the harddisk intensivly - does not slow down the hole system that 
> > much, that I can´ t move the mouse anymore.
>
>
> Have you determined that it is one process?  How?  What is it?  What 
> files is it using?  Is it reading or writing to them?
I will have to do this. Haven´t done it yet.

> > I heard the scheduler of linux is rather poor.
>
>
> Which kernel are you running?  The newer errata kernels include some 
> very nice scheduler code backported from 2.5, IIUC.
I am using the standard kernel from the RedHat 9. It is 2.4.20
I personally feal that the whole system with RH9 is very much slower 
than RH7.3

Cornelius