Starting hal daemon incredibly decrease my hard drive performance

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 22:37 +0100, Alexis Muller wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 19:08 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> [...]
> > No idea. I can't believe as well that this is caused by hald.
> > Please look with:
> > 
> >   [root at pim ~]# lsof -p 29989
> [...]
> >   [root at pim ~]# strace -s 1000 -p 29989
> [...]

> open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = 3

> 
> Do you see something wrong ?

It's probably caused by the fact that your cdrom and your harddisk are
sharing one ide bus. The polling of hdb may affect the hdparm
measurement. You may try this with the udi for your cdrom:

  hal-set-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_22_0 --key storage.media_check_enabled --bool false

Kay

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