On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 10:19, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> updatedb is set to run about an hour after I boot up in the morning.
> Once it is started, my machine is almost unusable for 10 minutes.
[snip]
> Question is, to fix this do I need (my boss to) replace:
>
> hard drive
> motherboard
> kernel (with 2.6.x)
> something else
I have heard a lot of good things about machines having better
interactive performance under 2.6, so it is probably worth a shot as it
would be cheaper than the other options.
One question, Carl, what does
/sbin/hdparm -d /dev/hda
report?
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
