On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:02:34PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
The 2.4.20 that came with RH 9
If you don't mind building a new kernel and want to avoid the pain of upgrading to 2.6, try upgrading to 2.4.24 and using your current .config. There has been quite a bit of work on the IDE drivers, and a few patches specific to VIA controllers have gone in between 2.4.20 and 2.4.24.
Bingo. It feels like video conferencing on dial-up. Same as updatedb.
With either of those two tests running, or only the find?
The find slows things down a bit. The dd makes the entire desktop feel like it is doing 1 fps.
When updatedb runs, keep an eye on your free memory, cache and buffer sizes, and swap in-use. What may be happening is that updatedb is causing some of your applications to be pushed into swap as the buffer grows.
Already considered. Memory is not the problem.
Cheers, Carl.
