Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My guess is that the Win98 was hitting the disk quite often (for reasons > unknown) and that ate up the power. The apps I was running on Linux
Windows has this bad habit of hitting the disk for swap even when it really doesn't need to. it also does regular pings into the configuration, and I think the CLOCK even updates something on disk. Windows in general is HD abuse, I think. > basically read the hard drive on start up and then ran fairly well right > out of RAM. Linux does sane swapping - even in low memory situations, where Windows will swap to disk even if it's running just the desktop and has a Gig of ram free, it swaps. Bad, bad design. -- ---------------------------------- -- Kevin Sonney -- ---------------------------------- 1024D/320C 0336 3BC4 13EC 4AEC 6AF2 525F CED7 7BB6 12C9 All glory to the Hypnotoad!
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