bandwidth_pig
12-24-2003, 12:58 PM
I did a fresh Gentoo install yesterday. I could not get the gentoo sources kernel to compile from stage 2. I dont' know why. I have compiled this same kernel before with no trouble. Kept crashing when it got to zlib. I took zlib out of menuconfig and it still crashed. I deleted the /usr/src/linux file and emerged the gentoo sources again and it still crashed. I gave up on the gentoo sources and downloaded the 2.6.0 kernel since I planned to migrate to that anyway :p
Regardless, for some reason I don't understand, whenever I extract a large file in KDE my CPU utilization goes 100% and the sytem drops to it's knees. Be it through the GUI or the CLI. Doesn't matter. The results are the same. It can't do anything during this period. Doesn't matter if its a RAR or TAR. Only seems to happen with large files though :confused:
Also, during NFS transfers, the machine does the same thing. Again, this seems to only be with large files. The partition the files are residing on is a reiserfs partition. Could that have something to do with it? Any ideas?
Regardless, for some reason I don't understand, whenever I extract a large file in KDE my CPU utilization goes 100% and the sytem drops to it's knees. Be it through the GUI or the CLI. Doesn't matter. The results are the same. It can't do anything during this period. Doesn't matter if its a RAR or TAR. Only seems to happen with large files though :confused:
Also, during NFS transfers, the machine does the same thing. Again, this seems to only be with large files. The partition the files are residing on is a reiserfs partition. Could that have something to do with it? Any ideas?