On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:50:39PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running Dapper on my laptop for over month now, but just > in the last day or so I've been noticing really slow disk access. > > For instance, one of the test suite programs for libsndfile is taking > over a minute to run on the laptop (1.1GHz CPU) and runs in under 6 > seconds on my ancient 450 Mhz desktop. The laptop used to leave the > desktop in the dust. > > The test suite program does a lot of writing to and reading from > disk, but the disk is only 70% full. There are no disk errors in > the messages log. The kernel is a stock Dapper 2.6.15-25-686. > > Anybody else experiencing similar weirdness?
I've found my system (or just X?) seems very sluggish in general for me with 2.6.15-25-686, compared to 2.6.15-23-686. I haven't bothered investigating why yet, but perhaps try downgrading to -23 and see what happens? Stabbing-in-the-dark-ly yrs, -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
