26 Aug
2004
26 Aug
'04
9:34 p.m.
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 ?