Since 2.2.? I have been having a lot of problem using the sync command.
It "hang" my system and sometimes just the window from which I'm running
the command "sync".
It is very consistant (works fine 1 out of 4).
The major difference is that I rencently installed vmware which runs
with nice -19
But I don't see how could that affect the sync command except for the
fac that it is very "io consuming".
Here are some information that can be usefull;
cat /proc/ide/hda/ide0/config
pci bus 00 device 39 vid 8086 did 7111 channel 0
86 80 11 71 05 00 80 02 01 80 01 01 00 40 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
a1 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
07 e3 03 e3 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00
cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model
ST34520A
cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/driver
ide-disk version 1.08
cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
bios_cyl 553 0 65535
rw
bios_head 255 0 255
rw
bios_sect 63 0 63
rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127
rw
bswap 0 0 1
r
file_readahead 72 0 2097151
rw
io_32bit 0 0 3
rw
keepsettings 0 0 1
rw
max_kb_per_request 122 1 127
rw
multcount 0 0 8
rw
nice1 1 0 1
rw
nowerr 0 0 1
rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255
w
slow 0 0 1
rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1
rw
using_dma 1 0 1
rw
cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/geometry
physical 9408/15/63
logical 553/255/63
/Andre
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