Re: about the debian way
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?
--
Matijs
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