Subject: [linux-audio-user] 2nd harddrive overhead
From: Alastair Couper (kalepa_AT_shaka.com)
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 20:19:55 EEST
I have two hard drives, hda and hdb, both UDMA66. hda has the ext3 root
partition, a swap partition, and a FAT32 partition. hdb just has one
10Meg FAT32 partition.
When I stream a .wav file from the FAT32 partition on hda through say
XMMS, the total system load is very low, just a few percent cpu load.
When I do the same, but from hdb's FAT32 partition, the cpu load hovers
at around 30-50%. What is responsible for all the extra cpu activity in
reading from the 2nd harddrive ?
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