On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > I am running a ThinkPad A31 (1 year old) notebook with 256 MB of RAM, > and a 1.8 Ghz Pentium-M processor. While this is by no means a cutting > edge system, it is still nevertheless an acceptable system. > > However the system is really under-performing, and it is completely > apparent to me that the bottleneck is the HDD. Put it this way, it > seems my internet connection is faster than my hard disk because > whenever I start downloading 600 KBps or more, the hard disk light > just remains on (which means it is under heavy load) and at that point > my system becomes useless until I stop one of the connections and > downgrade my speed. Also, I can't seem to burn CDs with more than 3x > speed, because again the bottleneck seems to be the HDD. > > I have heard now and again, that notebook HDDs are slow, but this > particular model was a high-end model last year, and I made sure that > it uses the best HDD available in the market. I can't believe that it > is THIS slow. > > Before complaining to IBM about a faulty HDD, I just want to ask if > there is anything I can do to boost HDDs performance; via software. I > have never run any other OS on this machine (I run sid) so I want to > make sure that this under-performance isn't related to the OS. > Precisely, I am asking to see if there are any softwares, or tricks, > which can boost the performance of the hard disk. >
Check the memory use, may be it is just that you are out of memory and the system is using virtual memory. Xavier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]