You guys hooked me up. I entered the following hdparm command: hdparm -X34 -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda
Not only are problems resolved but system in general runs much quicker and is more responsive. Hdparm is now running at startup!! Thanks all for you help with this one. Wish I'd of asked a long time ago. Michael On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:40:11 -0700, "Michael Evaniuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have been running Debian intermitantly since 2.2 was out. There is > nothing I would like more to standardize on this distro but there is one > issue I can not seem to get over. Hopefully one of you good people can > assist me on this. > > If I run am running Debian and attempt to run multiple applications at > the same time performance degrades a lot. For example if I am playing an > MP3 on XMMS and while playing it run Mozilla the MP3 cuts out while it is > loading. I have noticed this happens on some other distros but to a much > lesser extent. On Gentoo this does not happen at all but I do not have > the time to spend compiling all my software. Redhat/Mandrake it happens > but not nearly as bad. Debian gives me the worst performance of two > applications. Surprisingly Windows 98/2K/XP this does not happen at all > and you can not tell me M$ multitasks better then Linux!! This happens in > either KDE, Gnome, or Windowmaker. My system is as follows: > > Duron 800mhz > 256MB RAM > NVidea TNT2 (32MB) Graphics Card > Ensoniq Sound Card > > BTW - I borrowed a 1.3Ghz processor and put in 512MB RAM and saw no > difference. > > > Michael > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
