On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote:
> There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define
> quite precisely.
not just KDE3 if I'm right.....
> If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a .tar.gz)
> then select 'Save Link As ...' there's _enormous_ hard disk thrashing
> before the file save dialog appears.
>
> I also notice the same effect when I do 'Open ...' from KDE 3
> applications (eg ark and kwrite); it often takes a minute or two for
> the file open dialog to appear.
>
> Finally, there's a lot of disk thrashing between entering the username
> and password and the KDE 3 splash screen appearing.
Do you have automount enabled on your box? If so, chkconfig --del automount
is your friend....
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