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hal-info package

  1. Bug #48499
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 48499

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Manfred Odenstein (odix-odiisi) wrote : Re: Extremly slow IO performance with dapper, high wa% on Dell Inspiron 8200

thanks to heldal, hald is the culprit, killing hald will bring you performance back, may be it's that on this hardware the harddisk and cdrom is on the same bus, and the probing blocks the bus for some time, see http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=188901

regards