Re: verrrry slow RH7.3

2003-06-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:31, Peter Davies wrote: > YES that works > I used hdparm -c3 -d1 -m16 -u1 -X66 > and all seems well. > Now I just need to figure out where to put this line so that it does it at startup > Thanks Stephen You should be able to directly make the modifications to the /etc/s

Re: verrrry slow RH7.3

2003-06-16 Thread Peter Davies
> > I have just installed RH 7.3 on a Compaq Evo P4-2.4/512mb RAM. > > I allowed 509MB for swapfile. > > > > When I am running gunzip on multiple large files (~20Mb compressed)the desktop > > clags up and freezes for periods of up to 10 seconds and I am hardly able to do > > anything else until

Re: verrrry slow RH7.3

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 11:10, Peter Davies wrote: > Hello > > I have just installed RH 7.3 on a Compaq Evo P4-2.4/512mb RAM. > I allowed 509MB for swapfile. > > When I am running gunzip on multiple large files (~20Mb compressed)the desktop clags > up and freezes for periods of up to 10 seconds an

verrrry slow RH7.3

2003-06-15 Thread Peter Davies
Hello I have just installed RH 7.3 on a Compaq Evo P4-2.4/512mb RAM. I allowed 509MB for swapfile. When I am running gunzip on multiple large files (~20Mb compressed)the desktop clags up and freezes for periods of up to 10 seconds and I am hardly able to do anything else until the process has