jan kalcic wrote: > In addition, during the wait, the hard disk sounds like it is doing such > a big work that it's so busy it can't even move my mouse. Quite strange. > > Could it even be an hardware (hard disk) problem? >
That seems very likely. Often when I have that kind of behavior it's because there are bad sectors on the disk and it's having to try repeatedly to read data. You may even see I/O errors in your syslog. I would run the SMART self-test, if it's supported -- see the 'smartctl' manpage for details. Most likely your disk is dying. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
