[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
> Actually, one possibility just occured to me. The Powerbook does
> a couple of things involving the disk that are premptive--Squeak
> (and all other applications) stop completely while these operations
> occur. One case is when the hard disk has spun down and you try
> to access the disk. The other case is more peculiar. It happens a
> few seconds *after* you've last written something to the disk.
> If you start a "BouncingAtomsMorph", you can see when these pauses
> happen. The pauses are long enough that a LOT of connections could
> arrive during the pause. You can set the power-saving mode so that
> the hard disk doesn't spin down, but I know of no way to disable
> the pause that happens a few seconds after writing. I'm not even
> sure what it is doing, although I suspect that the OS is parking
> the disk heads to reduce risk of a hard disk crash if the computer
> is jolted suddenly.
>
> Do your observations fit this theory?
>
It is a possibility. I reinstalled everything once more,
and now both the PowerBook and the G3 tower work
equally well. In fact, they are rather fast.
I cannot explain the freak incident but it might be something
to keep in mind.
Cheers,
Iannis Zannos
SIM
