I tried to execute Jonathan's suggestion of disabling CPU scaling, but the command I found at <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87415">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87415</a> <br><br><pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;">
sudo killall powernowd</pre><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>Does nothing on my system.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br></div>What does 'hdparm /dev/hda' say? </blockquote><div> <br>troy@hplaptop:~$ sudo hdparm /dev/hda<br>
<br>
/dev/hda:<br>
multcount = 0 (off)<br>
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)<br>
unmaskirq = 0 (off)<br>
using_dma = 1 (on)<br>
keepsettings = 0 (off)<br>
readonly = 0 (off)<br>
readahead = 256 (on)<br>
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 78140160, start = 0<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Try 'hdparm -d1 -u1 -c1 -m8 /dev/hda' and see if it
<br>improves things. You can run 'hdparm -t /dev/hda' before and after<br>running hdparm as suggested above.</blockquote><div><br>I'll run the above command and see if things improve. Right now, hdparm -t /dev/hda is
<br><br>/dev/hda:<br> Timing buffered disk reads: 58 MB in 3.07 seconds = 18.87 MB/sec<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Check the kernel log for io errors<br>(using 'dmesg'). You'll know'em when you see'em.</blockquote><div><br>I found the following errors using 'dmesg', but I'm not sure what they mean.<br>
<br>[11366.456000] ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_wait timeout, status = 32, expect_event = 1<br>[11366.456000] ACPI: EC: read timeout, command = 128<br>[11366.456000] ACPI Exception (evregion-0420): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20070126]
<br>[11366.456000] ACPI Exception (dswexec-0462): AE_TIME, While resolving operands for [OpcodeName unavailable] [20070126]<br>[11366.456000] ACPI Error (psparse-0551): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.EC0_.SMRD] (Node df803330), AE_TIME
<br>[11366.456000] ACPI Error (psparse-0551): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.BAT1.UPBH] (Node df8050d8), AE_TIME<br>[11366.456000] ACPI Error (psparse-0551): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.BAT1.CHBP] (Node df805138), AE_TIME
<br>[11366.456000] ACPI Error (psparse-0551): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.EC0_.SMSL] (Node df803378), AE_TIME<br>[11366.456000] ACPI Error (psparse-0551): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.EC0_._Q09] (Node df8033d8), AE_TIME
<br><br><br>Thanks again,<br><br>Troy<br></div></div>