Re: Disk performance when installing packages

2000-08-01 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:47:23AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:19:29 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > Above > > all that, IDE performance tends to suck a whole lot more CPU juice than > > SCSI does (I run SCSI on two of three disks). > > Oh, well... But SCSI

Re: Disk performance when installing packages

2000-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:19:29 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: >> I was wondering if anyone else notices this when installing or >> removing packages: the disk is heavily used (like when the cron >> scripts are triggered in the morning) for some time (depending on >> the number and size of the

Re: Disk performance when installing packages

2000-07-31 Thread kmself
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:16:41PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone else notices this when installing or > removing packages: the disk is heavily used (like when the cron > scripts are triggered in the morning) for some time (depending on > the nu

Disk performance when installing packages

2000-07-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, I was wondering if anyone else notices this when installing or removing packages: the disk is heavily used (like when the cron scripts are triggered in the morning) for some time (depending on the number and size of the packages), and the box becomes absolutely slow. This happens