[SWLUG] Backing up took 3 days

[Jonathan Wright]

Pete Phillips wrote:
> Have you checked DMA for all your devices ? I have seen DMA turned off
> with Suse in the past (admittedly a few years ago) for some devices
> which Suse seemed unsure if they supported DMA. Without DMA, they ran
> dog slow. You can sort this out in yast2 Hardware/IDE DMA Mode. (this is
> probably unlikely as you would notice your whole system running slowly).

Also - a very high (usually ~99%) CPU load during transfer will point to
this as well. Without DMA the CPU has to do all the work transferring
the data back/fore.

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