[plug] No net traffic with heavy IDE usage

[BaRT]

Hi,

With hdparm set the unmask IRQ flag to on "-u 1" this is because the serial
port/network card can use IRQ a lot. If disk is holding the IRQs open then
the serial port/network card dont get priority.

BaRT

>
> Hi list,
>
> When i'm burning a CD (reading from or writing to), the hard drive is
> thrashing under swap or just generally with heavy disk usage, all
> internet traffic stops until there is a pause in disk usage. I've been
> running Debian (unstable) for about a year now, pretty sure it didn't
> happen under Redhat 5.2/6.0.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what might cause this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nigel