On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:57 +1200, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > weeeelll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron > > 9100). It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb. > > > > But I definately notice it when emerging sources, and then trying to > > switch virtual workspaces when I have, say, firefox & evolution & vmware > > running... even if emerge is niced. > > > what are the specs on your HDD? surely seems like the key here. Like Richard > pointed out, as soon as IO systems become loaded they struggle to keep up > with demand. Laptops usually have 5400rpm HDD dont they?
Just put in a 7200rpm 8Mb cache 100Gb Seagate :) It's faster in hdparm tests than my 5400, but I still get a bit of 'slowdown' when emerging... -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> What's all this brouhaha? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
