Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 02:41:15 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 03:22:30, Frank Phillips wrote: >When my program is running on FICS under Linux and accessing the EGTBs >(performing a lot of disk activity), it seems to forget to look at the input >from the server for long periods of time, so that the opponent's clock goes >negative. When not accessing the EGTBs (or running under Windows) everything >is fine. su to root, and run hdparm -i /dev/hda (or /dev/hdb or ... what HD the EGTB's are on) then run hdparm -u /dev/hda and hdparm -d /dev/hda and post the output here. If possible also post the disk-related parts of dmesg (or just all of it :). Do you have similar problems when the computer is doing heavy diskaccess in other situations? Jerky mouse pointer etc..? What kernel are you using? -- GCP
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