Re: system sluggish with new distro

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

Peter Kirk wrote:
> i have my system partitions (all except /boot) encrypted with loop-aes. Now,
> this setup worked fine on my SuSE 8.0 distro (of course copying was a bit
> slower then without encryption). Now, I installed gentoo on my system, using
> the same encryption method. The Problem: When copying files, in fact
> everytime i get disc activity my system goes very 'sluggish', meaning i type
> stuff, and see it all appear 2 or 3 sec later....meaning i move the mouse and
> it doesnt, but jumps after a while.
> I was wondering why this could be, and how I might fix it....Changing the
> Priority of the loop? processes from -9 to 0 didnt help very much :(.

What does command "hdparm /dev/hdX" output?
                                 ^ replace with a b c d e (or whatever).

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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