On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote:
> hi, y'all, > > occasionally when i start up pine or emacs, the system pauses for 10 to 15 > seconds before the apps fully appear. anyone else experiencing this? > this happens even when i have few windows open, and nothing going on, like > compiling or printing. > > btw, i have a mmx166 with 32mb edo, so system perf. isn't the problem. > > matty > I had a similar problem a while ago, which was caused by the hard drive irq timeout. I fixed this by using hdparm to disable the auto power-saving function of my hard drive (Seagate), and set the standby timeout = 1 hr. I suggest you fire up xconsole and see what happens during the system pause. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
