From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 22 11:19:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F0237B401 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keichii@peorth.iteration.net) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7FFD559520; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:19:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:19:33 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Torbjorn Kristoffersen Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: IOmega ZIP problem Message-ID: <20010222131933.C20955@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from sgt@netcom.no on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:40:16PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:40:16PM +0100, Torbjorn Kristoffersen scribbled: | Hi I'm using 4.2-RELEASE, with a parallel port ZIP drive (100M). | Whenever I copy a large file from the zip drive (for example /dev/da0s1), | the "cp" process eats 98% of the system resources. What's behind all this? | Is there a way to fix it? | | 711 root 54 0 280K 168K RUN 0:45 93.87% 93.21% cp | | A 'renice' won't help. That's natural with "parallel". No way around it. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message