Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:19:33 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Torbjorn Kristoffersen <sgt@netcom.no> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: IOmega ZIP problem Message-ID: <20010222131933.C20955@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0102221930510.685-100000@hal.netforce.no>; from sgt@netcom.no on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:40:16PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0102221930510.685-100000@hal.netforce.no>
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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
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