Hopefully someone has answers to my questions: 1. How to disable metacity and start sawfish instead, I've seen something like: killall metacity; sleep 5; sawfish, but this does not work. Any hints?
2. Starting gnome+metacity takes forever and leaving gnome takes even longer time. Also all xterms and gnome-terminals pop up when started or from saved state but no prompt appear :( On the maximum I can get one xterm and sometimes one gnome-terminal to use on the whole desktop! I suppose the problem is the access setup to the applications and suspect msec. Currently my msec level is 3. Very annoying indeeed. 3. Disk access seems to be extremely slow on my Linux HDD (/dev/hdb). The first HDD (/dev/hda) has W98 installed and is slower than the second HDD. DMA is enabled and several hdparm settings have been tried, with limited success. I know the fastest HDD should be the boot disk, but this requires some changes of the disks and the boot configurations. How much is the performance hit for this configuration. The second disk is maybe 50-100% faster than the first. Anyway, for example when installing new software with urpmi and rpm, the access to other applications is _very_ sluggish, the system almost stops. Any ideas?
