On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 07:05:00PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > I particularly appreciate the suspend mode, with it it is very fast to > > power on and off the machine (a few secs). > > Yes, that would be nice. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my laptop. > Apparantly, I could get it to work if I update the BIOS, but I'm not > really comfortable doing that. You should really do that. I have done it a few times with my toshiba. I trust them (toshiba) to be carefull enough to do it right. > > You really can run a 'find /' without noticing it in other apps ? > > Well, I just tried. It's not perfect, but it's not really bad either. I > can see how it could be irritationg if it happens when you just want to > get started quickly after a resume. > > > My computer is a amd K6-2 300MHz with 96MB. It is not so bad execpt for > > the harddrive. > > I have a 366 Celeran, with 96MB also. Could be the harddrive, indeed. It is the harddrive and the 2.4 kernel which has a virtual memory system better that it was a few release ago but still not perfect. Also because I power off very rarely I have my favorite app running (ie I am always in a situation where swap is used). > You may want to try and set a longer delay before anacron kicks in. I > think you can set that in /etc/anacrontab. what I really would like is a way to do all the cron tasks slowly by limiting io and cpu used but I can't see a way to do that properly. 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 In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. --English proverb
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