Re: about the debian way
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.
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- mdz
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