On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:57, David N. Welton wrote: > > My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively when there is a lot of > disk activity (dselect unpackaging things, anacron running the find > job). What's up with this?!
First of all, check with hdparm that your HD is set up reasonably. It should at least be using DMA and unmasking IRQs. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
