> > 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 finished. At first I thought it was gnome, so > > I swithched to fvwm2 and it may be a bit better but still bad. It is worse with > > gunzip than gzip. > > > > Can anyone suggest what might be the problem and how to fix it. I have had 7.3 > > installed on lesser computers and havent had this problem. > > It would help to optimise what you can; use hdparm to optimise the hard > disks (you can manually edit the /etc/sysconfig/harddisks file to > accomplish some of that task) as well as turn off any unwanted/unused > services that may be running in the background.
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 > > One some systems - depending on their motherboard/IDE controller, I've > been able to successfully pass kernel parameters in the /etc/lilo.conf > to assist in speeding up the IDE bus speed and throughput. I am not sure what you mean here -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
