Hi, maybe someone can tell me something about the very weird behaviour of my computer after switching from Debian 1.3.1, Kernel-Version 2.0.30 to Debian 2.0, Kernel-Version 2.0.34.
on both OS i ran a self written program that may be busy for months at least, doing some evaluations. while running it at the old setting i just noticed that maybe some other applications sometimes seemed a bit slower. although this programm relies heavily on disk-IO i never noticed the hard-disk-indicator-lamp did more than just blink now and then. firing up top told me my program was happily running in background leaving the processor hardly any time left to idle (averages 0.0% to 0.4%). but that has changed far to the worse with my new setting. suddenly loading xemacs just will take up to 3 minutes and working with it sometimes seems to stop (i. e. it takes some seconds until my monitor shows the results of my typing). the hard-disk-indicator-lamp seems more a light than an indicator. now top tells me that there is time enough and to spare for the processor to idle (averages 40.0 to 60.0 %). of course i would appreciate more some hints what to do about this situation than pure explanations. Helmut Metzdorf
