A little embarassed to even ask this, but...
In the last few evenings, a typical Linux session has been creating a root file system on an SD card, mounted on /mnt/sd2 (partition2 of card). At the same time watching a movie from the HD, mounted at /mnt/HD.
I was wondering if everything going through /mnt might be slowing things down at all. The answer should be 'no' since everything is mounted to 'root' and that doesn't seem to be a problem, but maybe /mnt is handled differently than root.
Just ran an experiment with 'top' and seeing what is happening with mplayer and debian bootrap:
Code:
5562 walter 20 0 62980 23m 9.8m R 38.0 2.7 4:01.75 mplayer
1852 root 20 0 32048 12m 3728 S 3.0 1.4 2:08.92 Xorg
2020 walter 20 0 276m 14m 9m S 2.0 1.7 1:32.03 gnome-mplayer
2070 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 1.0 0.0 0:25.22 mmcqd/0
Can't really tell much from this, except that 'mmcqd/0' must be the bootstrap program unpacking things in the sd card. It kind of begs dumb question number 2: the unpacking process is crawling down the terminal screen, why is it not using more cpu to speed itself up? Must be the sd card can only accept writing to it at that speed, average about 1 second per package? Can't pull the card out at the moment, but pretty shure it's class 10, although suspiciously cheap from Eb.