On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 07:07:19PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:22:04PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote: > > > I use an old laptop with a not so good ide drive. > > Each time a soft uses too much the drive, the feeling (responsiveness) > > of the system is degraded. > > It not so bad but for some particular cases it's very bad. > > > > One of this case is 'find /' > > You may want to try: > > apt-get install hdparm > > and experiment with the settings. This tuning will often considerably > increase laptop disk performance and system responsiveness. Thanks. I already played with hdparm and I believe I can't do better now. The major problem is that the swap is used and when find / is running you really know that the kernel is using the swap. I could add RAM (which is expensive) or buy a new laptop (which ...) but most of the time I am more than happy with it. I am astonished that no one else reported this problem. A 'find /' is not a small task and with anacron you noticed it automatically when you power on your machine (you power it on to use it and boom steve is working too). Perhaps most laptop user don't use anacron and then miss most of the cron task. Christophe > > -- > - mdz > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. --English proverb
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