Re: app pause

[H Huang <h.huang@usa.net>]

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote:

> hi, y'all,
> 
> occasionally when i start up pine or emacs, the system pauses for 10 to 15
> seconds before the apps fully appear. anyone else experiencing this?
> this happens even when i have few windows open, and nothing going on, like
> compiling or printing.
> 
> btw, i have a mmx166 with 32mb edo, so system perf. isn't the problem.
> 
> matty
> 

I had a similar problem a while ago, which was caused by the hard drive
irq timeout. I fixed this by using hdparm to disable the auto power-saving
function of my hard drive (Seagate), and set the standby timeout = 1 hr.

I suggest you fire up xconsole and see what happens during the system 
pause.


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