Re: real time vs system/cpu time

CBFalconer <cbfalconer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

vrusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Directory was small enough. DMA is enabled by the BIOS at boot. No
other tasks running, the cpu was essentially idle.

CPU speed = 1.8GHz
mem = 1GB (~400MB free constantly)

one more thing I realized is that this only happens for the user, I
don't have this problem when root.

Small enough for what? Do you have some sort of a question? What
problem? See below for means of including context and writing sane
articles on the foul google interface to usenet.

He is another of the people who think that the rest of the world is as
interested in his problem as he is, and will remember all of the details of
all the posts he has made on the subject.


Anyway, I just happen to remember that he was doing ls, and it was taking a
long time for it to display.



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