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Disk operations freeze Debian

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202610062 views
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I have just installed Debian testing on my new desktop and I am not very happy with performance - when I perform a disk intensive operation, e.g. upgrade packages in the system, everything seems to freeze, e.g. changing tabs in Iceweasel takes 3 seconds. I run the Debian on my 3 year old Thinkpad X…

Error Output

hdparm -t /dev/sda1

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Fix for: Disk operations freeze Debian

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Check the offset for the partition - needs to be divisable by 4 for EARS as they have the 4096 technology. If it isn't - repartition it to get alignment and performance issues should go away (misaligned EARS drives will be doing a lot more sector wr…

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