Hi Esteban,
This sounds like your host OS is powering down your laptop's HDD while on
battery, to save energy. Plugging it in triggers a different rule that
selects "performance" over "energy savings" and keeps the drive up &
spinning constantly.
I would check the Win10 power management rules to
Answering myself...
It seems to be related with the power management because as soon as I
plugged in my laptop the spinning effect went away (and also the whole
environment got faster).
Maybe it has to do with the guest OS power management, although I
didn't see any noticeable slowdown in other ap
It is happening to me very often that to access the source of a
method, or sometimes to find senders/implementors, the Calypso browser
takes a long time to load it.
By long I mean from two to five seconds, sometimes longer.
I'm running Pharo 7 within a VirtualBox VM with Ubuntu 16.04 in a
Windows