Re: 2.6.x: iowait problem while burning a CD: SOLVED

From: Paolo Ornati
Date: Sun Feb 29 2004 - 08:39:19 EST


On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:35, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >
> > But I think to have found where the problem is:
> >
> > if I only create an ISO image of 672.4 MB I must wait more then 5
> > minutes... this means about 2.2 MB/s !
>
> How full is your filesystem on average? If it has been around 90% or
> more, you might be having trouble with fragmentation.

YES.... it was a fragmentation problem ;-)

Now the ISO image creation speed is 9.2 MB/s....

Many thanks.

Bye

--
Paolo Ornati
Linux v2.6.3

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