Starting hal daemon incredibly decrease my hard drive performance

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:12 +0100, Alexis Muller wrote:
> Numbers ? Well, perhaps :
> 
> joshua download # time cp -r /usr/portage/distfiles/ /tmp/
> 
> real    0m15.742s
> user    0m0.004s
> sys     0m0.349s
> 
> joshua download # hal-set-property
> --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_3_64 --key
> storage.media_check_enabled --bool false
> 
> joshua download # time cp -r /usr/portage/distfiles/ /tmp/ 
> real    0m0.294s
> user    0m0.005s
> sys     0m0.281s
> 
> Convincing ? This difference appear by copying many files but not for a
> single (big or not) file.

Interesting; there is also some discussion on why this is happening and
some suggestions on how to work around it - it's right here

 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-November/msg00421.html
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148

Will look into it - unless someone beats me to it!

Cheers,
David


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