On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 07:29:22 am Kristoffer Walker wrote: ... > > Also as a side note on many dell and other vendors I have seen issues > > where the harddrive drops significantly in performance as time goes on > > but doesn't actually die. I have found these several times in school > > labs and thought someone had infected the PC, reimaged it only to find > > it just as slow. > > I'm affraid this might be the problem. This is a stock Toshiba drive > in a 5 yr old Toshiba laptop. I'm going to repartition, format, and > reinstall Ubuntu to see what happens.
Try turning off the "Desktop Search" features. At least on my system it made a huge difference. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jan 5 - Building a Community Site with Drupal Feb 2 - Zimbra Mar 2 - MHVLUG 8th Anniversary - Show and Tell
