N.Pauli wrote:
It was after that upgrade that my slowness problems started and gconf began to
feature so heavily in syslog.
There seems to be a repeating pattern of resolving an address to do with gconfd
first for user root and then user nbp - and making a real meal of it.
Any ideas anyone?
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:17:35 -0500
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:09:32PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:56:47 -0600
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
judicious wiggling and flexing can
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
Dear All,
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to
launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like
Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as
Hello,
I had the same problem some weeks ago...
The DMA was disabled, you can see it with this command (no option to hdparm)
hdparm /dev/hda
The problem was that the ide module used was generic-ide and not the one
specially suited for my mother board (some via-cxxx)
To correct the problem (if
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 15:53 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:19 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
Dear All,
All of a sudden my machine has
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:09:32PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:56:47 -0600
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
judicious wiggling and flexing can sometimes reveal a problem.
but be careful with the Slotermeyer!
ROFLAMOJ (at
Brian Schrock wrote:
debianoak:/home/nbp# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1192 MB in 2.00 seconds = 595.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:6 MB in 3.24 seconds = 1.85 MB/sec
**
That looks reasonable to me - very fast from the cache and a lot slower
when it has to
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:19 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
Dear All,
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to
launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching
On Thu, 30 Mar, listrcv wrote:
N.Pauli wrote:
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to
launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like
Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while
the harddisk drive light is burning
N. Pauli wrote:
I don't think it is hard disk - but please don't think I speak with either
authority or conviction. Philippe de Rycke pointed me towards some HD
inspection progs but they haven't turned up anything alarming yet - as far as I
can see.
Thanks for your tip about syslog. I had a
debianoak:/home/nbp# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1192 MB in 2.00 seconds = 595.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:6 MB in 3.24 seconds = 1.85 MB/sec
**
That looks reasonable to me - very fast from the cache and a lot slower
when it has to be buffered
On Fri, 31 Mar, Brian Schrock wrote:
debianoak:/home/nbp# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1192 MB in 2.00 seconds = 595.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:6 MB in 3.24 seconds = 1.85 MB/sec
**
That looks reasonable to me - very fast from the cache
On Friday 31 March 2006 10:59, N.Pauli wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar, Brian Schrock wrote:
debianoak:/home/nbp# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1192 MB in 2.00 seconds = 595.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:6 MB in 3.24 seconds = 1.85 MB/sec
**
N.Pauli wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar, Brian Schrock wrote:
debianoak:/home/nbp# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing cached reads: 1192 MB in 2.00 seconds = 595.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:6 MB in 3.24 seconds = 1.85 MB/sec
[...]
That is not even close to reasonable. I have
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:59:54 +0100 (BST)
N.Pauli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Capabilities:
LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
Queue depth: 1
Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 0
Philippe De Ryck wrote:
Nigel,
I found the article very useful too!
You say your disk hangs but all the attributes indicate a healthy disk.
One way to know this for sure is to put your disk in another machine. If
it works fine, you can exclude the disk. If it still hangs, you probably
know
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:56:47 -0600
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
judicious wiggling and flexing can sometimes reveal a problem.
but be careful with the Slotermeyer!
ROFLAMOJ (at my own joke).
A
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:09:32PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:56:47 -0600
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
judicious wiggling and flexing can sometimes reveal a problem.
but be careful with the Slotermeyer!
ROFLAMOJ (at my own joke).
I
Dear All,
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to launch
anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like Mozilla or
OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while the harddisk drive light is
burning constantly. It is as if there is some process
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
Dear All,
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to
launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like
Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while the harddisk drive
light
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
Dear All,
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to
launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like
Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as
N.Pauli wrote:
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to launch
anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like Mozilla or
OpenOffice can take just as long. All the while the harddisk drive light is
burning constantly. It is as if there is some
On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote:
Dear All,
All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to
launch anything - boot up took over 5 minutes and launching an app like
Mozilla or OpenOffice can take just as
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