Time to write DVD increased a lot.... help

aditya.shevade · Jul 26, 2007

Hi

As usual with my laptop, after the installation of OpenSUSE 10.2, in a month or two, the DVD writing speed has come down dramatically.

When I had freshly installed the OS, it used to take about 15 minutes to write a 4GB data on a DVD at 8X speed. (Actually k3b says that writing speed is 8X, but it is around 4-5X average). And now, it takes about 25 minutes (or more) to write the DVD (I tried Gnome disk creator also). Also the time the system used to take to transfer the data from a CD/DVD onto HDD has increased.

Anu suggestions? Ideas? Or the only way it to reinstall? :-(

Aditya

Hey people.... right now, I burned another DVD... it took 35 minutes to burn 3.7GB.... That sucks....

mehulved · Jul 26, 2007

There maybe too many services running in the background, because of which processor and RAM usage goes up, slowing down the rest of the processes.

praka123 · Jul 27, 2007

a distant chance for some config file/kernel upgrade killed ur dma for the drive.which kernel version are u using?

infra_red_dude · Jul 27, 2007

hmmm... clearly a problem wid dma setting being turned off. check if dma is disabled for ur hard disk first.

issue this command: sudo hdparm -d <hdd device>

<hdd device> can be /dev/hda or b/c etc. or /dev/sda or b/c (for atapi ide and sata respectively)

then for ur dvdrw: sudo hdparm -d <dvdrw device> (usualy /dev/cdrom or so)

this will check for the dma status. if its turned off, u may turn it on by issuing the command: sudo hdparm -d1 <hdd device>

then for the cdrom: sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom

aditya.shevade · Jul 27, 2007

^^ I am using kernel 2.6.x (kernelversion command shows 2.6).

dma is on for both HDD and CDROM.

Output of top command is like this :-

Code:

top - 19:23:44 up  9:39,  3 users,  load average: 3.63, 3.10, 2.90
Tasks: 110 total,   4 running, 105 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    507968k total,   501176k used,     6792k free,    18160k buffers
Swap:  2361544k total,       76k used,  2361468k free,   144764k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                           
 4061 aditya    15   0 45984  18m 8456 S 98.2  3.7 559:15.92 beagled-helper                                                                    
 4473 aditya    16   0 2668m  22m 8792 S  1.0  4.6   5:38.56 utorrent.exe                                                                      
 3515 root      15   0  354m  28m 9488 S  0.7  5.7   1:30.53 X                                                                                 
 3838 aditya    15   0 97960  27m  19m S  0.7  5.6   0:10.95 nautilus                                                                          
   10 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   2:32.80 kacpid                                                                            
 5696 root      15   0  2256 1032  760 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.01 top                                                                               
    1 root      15   0   744  284  240 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.44 init                                                                              
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0                                                                       
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0                                                                       
    4 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 events/0                                                                          
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper                                                                           
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread                                                                           
    9 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0                                                                         
  137 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/0                                                                          
  138 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 kseriod                                                                           
  176 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 pdflush                                                                           
  177 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush                                                                           
  178 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.53 kswapd0                                                                           
  179 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0                                                                             
  420 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused                                                                         
  836 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.15 kjournald                                                                         
  884 root      17  -4  1964  644  336 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.76 udevd                                                                             
 1458 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd                                                                             
 1530 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khpsbpkt                                                                          
 1739 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 knodemgrd_0                                                                       
 1774 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pccardd                                                                           
 1775 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ipw2200/0                                                                         
 1985 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.31 kjournald                                                                         
 2480 root      15   0  2108  680  440 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.56 syslog-ng                                                                         
 2482 root      15   0  1588  552  468 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 acpid                                                                             
 2488 root      15   0  1720  536  336 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.34 klogd                                                                             
 2527 root      16   0  2252  684  556 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 resmgrd                                                                           
 2538 messageb  15   0  3680 1080  716 S  0.0  0.2   0:01.24 dbus-daemon                                                                       
 2623 root      15   0  3564 1528 1320 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.02 polkitd                                                                           
 2675 haldaemo  15   0  5716 4016 1896 S  0.0  0.8   0:01.47 hald                                                                              
 2719 root      15   0  2588 1032  824 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.02 dhcdbd                                                                            
 2839 root      16   0  2952 1128  928 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.02 hald-runner                                                                       
 2843 root      15   0  2996 1324 1140 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 NetworkManagerD                                                                   
 2884 mdnsd     15   0  2048  912  672 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 mdnsd

Should I try and decrease nice value and check the time required?

Aditya

^^ I am using kernel 2.6.x (kernelversion command shows 2.6).

dma is on for both HDD and CDROM.

Output of top command is like this :-

Code:

top - 19:23:44 up  9:39,  3 users,  load average: 3.63, 3.10, 2.90
Tasks: 110 total,   4 running, 105 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    507968k total,   501176k used,     6792k free,    18160k buffers
Swap:  2361544k total,       76k used,  2361468k free,   144764k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                           
 4061 aditya    15   0 45984  18m 8456 S 98.2  3.7 559:15.92 beagled-helper                                                                    
 4473 aditya    16   0 2668m  22m 8792 S  1.0  4.6   5:38.56 utorrent.exe                                                                      
 3515 root      15   0  354m  28m 9488 S  0.7  5.7   1:30.53 X                                                                                 
 3838 aditya    15   0 97960  27m  19m S  0.7  5.6   0:10.95 nautilus                                                                          
   10 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   2:32.80 kacpid                                                                            
 5696 root      15   0  2256 1032  760 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.01 top                                                                               
    1 root      15   0   744  284  240 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.44 init                                                                              
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0                                                                       
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0                                                                       
    4 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 events/0                                                                          
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper                                                                           
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread                                                                           
    9 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0                                                                         
  137 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/0                                                                          
  138 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 kseriod                                                                           
  176 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 pdflush                                                                           
  177 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush                                                                           
  178 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.53 kswapd0                                                                           
  179 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0                                                                             
  420 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused                                                                         
  836 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.15 kjournald                                                                         
  884 root      17  -4  1964  644  336 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.76 udevd                                                                             
 1458 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd                                                                             
 1530 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khpsbpkt                                                                          
 1739 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 knodemgrd_0                                                                       
 1774 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pccardd                                                                           
 1775 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ipw2200/0                                                                         
 1985 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.31 kjournald                                                                         
 2480 root      15   0  2108  680  440 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.56 syslog-ng                                                                         
 2482 root      15   0  1588  552  468 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 acpid                                                                             
 2488 root      15   0  1720  536  336 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.34 klogd                                                                             
 2527 root      16   0  2252  684  556 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 resmgrd                                                                           
 2538 messageb  15   0  3680 1080  716 S  0.0  0.2   0:01.24 dbus-daemon                                                                       
 2623 root      15   0  3564 1528 1320 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.02 polkitd                                                                           
 2675 haldaemo  15   0  5716 4016 1896 S  0.0  0.8   0:01.47 hald                                                                              
 2719 root      15   0  2588 1032  824 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.02 dhcdbd                                                                            
 2839 root      16   0  2952 1128  928 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.02 hald-runner                                                                       
 2843 root      15   0  2996 1324 1140 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.00 NetworkManagerD                                                                   
 2884 mdnsd     15   0  2048  912  672 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.01 mdnsd

Should I try and decrease nice value and check the time required?

Aditya

mehulved · Jul 27, 2007

Try killing the beagled and stop running wine when burning the disks.

infra_red_dude · Jul 27, 2007

yeah mehul's rite. don't run beagle. rather chuck it and use affinity. secondly avoid heavy torrent download while burning. things should be fine.

praka123 · Jul 28, 2007

i am wondering why @OP wants to run a mixed system with kde and gnome components(nautilus etc) in Opensuse!I'll say-stick to one DE.there are much better performace expected.only use some few necessary apps from other library(gtk2/qt).
and beagled is a memory hog.as is untimed updatedb.

aditya.shevade · Jul 28, 2007

@ Mehul.. I will stop wine, but how did you know I was running it?

And by the way to all of you, I have tried killing Beagled-Helper, but it regenerates itself. Should I try and disable it from the startup programs?

@praka 123... whois OP?

Aditya

mehulved · Jul 28, 2007

With beagled taking up 98.2% of your CPU, I am wondering how do you manage to even work on that PC.
About wine. how else would utorrent.exe run

To stop beagle try beagle-shutdown.

aditya.shevade · Jul 28, 2007

Yeah... it gets pretty wacky... and things got worse today.... I wasted 2 DVDs...

Everything worked well.... DVD writing finished in some 20 minutes (still more than average), and the message came flushing cache... and then there was some error... It said write error. It happened for 2 DVDs in a row. What is going on?

praka123 · Jul 28, 2007

uninstall beagle if you are not using it for search is the simple answer.else remove the cron jobs(anacron?) set by the distro.It sucks with low memory.

aditya.shevade · Jul 29, 2007

^^ Yeah.. I think I will do that... remove beagle... cause even if I shut beagled-helper down... it starts by itself in some time..... And I almost forgot... 512MB RAM is indeed low these days.... system takes about 90% RAM use most of the time.....

What about the write error? Any ideas? It's not the first time I have had such an error....

Aditya

praka123 · Jul 29, 2007

also stick with one desktop environment.uninstall unwanted.as suse tends to install all the software

.so use Gnome or kde and install few softwares u like also install gtk2-qt engine for compatibility.

aditya.shevade · Jul 29, 2007

^^ I know what SuSE does.... I chose both the DE's myself..... I will uninstall KDE.....

praka123 · Jul 29, 2007

but suse seems defaults to kde na?

aditya.shevade · Jul 29, 2007

^^ No... in this version, (DVD install), installer asks you for the default DE you want. I selected Gnome, and then while package selection, I also checked all the KDE components. Actually I selected K3B and Amarok, and I guess most of KDE components were selected to solve dependencies.

praka123 · Jul 29, 2007

for qt apps to run basic lib-qt3-mt is enough.but if u want amarock-needs the whole kde installed

.I uses exaile gtk2 player which is amorck ported to Gnome.

Time to write DVD increased a lot.... help

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