On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:44:20PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:57:40PM -0500, christophe barbé wrote: > > 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. > > My laptop is basically always on, so usually cron handles all that while > I'm sleeping. It needs to be on, since it is a cvs server, and I just > can't be bothered to wait for it to boot. Whenever anacron does start, I > have no real problems with performance though. How much RAM do you have? You don't really use it like a laptop. I particularly appreciate the suspend mode, with it it is very fast to power on and off the machine (a few secs). You really can run a 'find /' without noticing it in other apps ? My computer is a amd K6-2 300MHz with 96MB. It is not so bad execpt for the harddrive. Also I run 2.4.18 which is still not really good for the VM. Christophe > > -- > Matijs > > > -- > 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 People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. --Faith Resnick
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