On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Miller wrote:
> Why would fragmentation cause latency?
>
> Sean
Heavy load on disk controllers while they seek would add to the overall CPU
load. I wouldn't say this is likely to be the exclusive cause of the
symptoms you are seeing - just a pitfall that I
Why would fragmentation cause latency?
Sean
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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> Just as an aside (and I'm not discounting the possibility of hardware issue
- this seems likely) what's the drive fragmentation like on the host drive?
The curse of installing an Ext3/4 container on an NTFS partition is that the
container is s
On 8 September 2010 13:16, Sean Miller wrote:
> Just bought PC Pro which has a Live CD of Ubuntu - may try booting
> from that and see if I exhibit the same symptoms.
>
Worth doing but might not prove much.
> If I don't, will be interesting to know what the potential resolution might
> be.
>
U
Indeed, sorry I should have explained my reasons for trying it.
Daniel
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On 8 September 2010 13:13, Alan Pope wrote:
> It could well be down to one of the chips on the motherboard that
> interacts with the keyboard. This is not uncommon. Using an external
> keyboard will help to eliminate or single out this possibility.
Just bought PC Pro which has a Live CD of Ubuntu
On 8 September 2010 13:07, Sean Miller wrote:
> Don't have one at the moment, but might borrow one and try.
>
> But as the keyboard in WIndows 7 is same as the one in Ubuntu I am not
> sure why that would be the case - are you suggesting it's keyboard
> drivers or something?
>
It could well be do
On 8 September 2010 12:56, Daniel Case wrote:
> Hi there Sean,
> Have you tried to use an external USB keyboard to see if the problem
> persists?
Don't have one at the moment, but might borrow one and try.
But as the keyboard in WIndows 7 is same as the one in Ubuntu I am not
sure why that would
Hi there Sean,
Have you tried to use an external USB keyboard to see if the problem
persists?
Daniel
On 8 September 2010 12:53, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 8 September 2010 12:50, Dave Morley wrote:
> > Wubi utilises the hardware directly. The only latency issues you should
> > have are with disk
On 8 September 2010 12:50, Dave Morley wrote:
> Wubi utilises the hardware directly. The only latency issues you should
> have are with disk i/o.
>
> Wubi basically sets up a virtual partition on the windows HD and and
> does a pretty standard install into that virtual drive.
>
> The only things
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 06:59 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> My Compaq laptop, running Ubuntu, died a death last week... so have
> now reverted to a Windows 7 Advent and - as one does - I thought
> "let's dual-boot"... WUBI seemed an option, so that's what I did.
>
> Alas, I appear to have some issue w
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