Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.



On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:39:05 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

I have terrible delays/freezes w/ any application whenever HDD (a SATA
one) does its writing.

That should not happen at all.

Consider running a smartctl test on the disk, it can be dying or having a
severe hardware problem.

My question is, Whether I can make any adjustments as to FS mount
options, kernel parameters, etc?

The idea is, If it works extremely slow - to reduce its (the writing
process or whatever related to it) priority or whatever - so it affect
not the OS almost at all - though the writing will continue forever.

I think you should first find out what makes this (freezes and slowness)
happens because if you're facing a hardware related issue, there will be
no improvements in tweaking the filesystem mount options, sooner or later
your disk will fail and you will only delay its agony.

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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