Large file copies using too much CPU time

[Shane Wright]

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Hi

Hmm, is arts giving any log info about what it's doing?  

(as a side note just in case, DMA and 32bit I/O is enable for the drives I 
assume?)

Cheers

Shane

On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:06 pm, Dan Stone wrote:
> Not always -- the problem manifests itself whether I'm just in a Konsole
> window unpacking a sizeable archive, or just copying files back and forth
> in Konqueror windows (or even just copying large files across partitions in
> Konsole...)
>
> Maybe I screwed up compiling arts somehow? *shrug* =P
>
> ~D. A. Stone
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Do you have a Konqueror window open browsing the destination directory?
> >
> > If so that could be the problem - I think what happens is that there are
> > ways too many 'file has been updated' messages causing Konq to update
> > itself lots and munch CPU.  Closing that Konq (or going to a different
> > directory) should cause it to calm down a bit.
> >
> > Of course it arts is the guilty thing then it couldbe summat completely
> > different.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > On Sunday 23 June 2002 9:03 pm, Dan Stone wrote:
> > > This is something I've been having problems with for a while, but after
> > > moving a large section of video files from one drive to another, it
> > > finally got to me to the point that I figured I'd ask to see if anyone
> > > knew a solution:
> > >
> > >  I'm running kinda a built-from-scratch linux system, using kernel
> > > 2.4.18, and using KDE 3.0.1 as my windowmanager...whenever large files
> > > are copied from one partition to another, there's a bit of a delay,
> > > then CPU usage spikes to 100%, and the entire system basically locks up
> > > until the hard disk write is done.  (The file systems are all EXT2) 
> > > The guilty process, of all things, is artsd!  Are there any known bugs
> > > about artsd doing this, or did I just flub something up along the way? 
> > > Any ideas on what could be done to fix this? Thanks!
> > >
> > > ~D. A. Stone
> > >
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