Re: FC4 GNOME 2.10 a bit slow on Toshiba Satellite A40

[yordy <ymedians yahoo es>]

well, on other pc with 2.8 GHz HT, 768 MB RAM, HD
Seagate ST3120022A 7200 rpm, fc4 is doing the same
that on my laptop... a hard disk of 7200 rmp is slow?

G

 --- Øyvind Stegard <oyvinst ifi uio no> escribió:

> yordy wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have a Toshiba Laptop (2.8 GHz, 768 MB RAM, HD
> > TOSHIBA
> > MK4025GAS 4200rpm, Intel 852 video card and 1 GB
> of
> > swap) with Fedora Core 4 (GNOME 2.10) installed, I
> > note that is a slightly slow, for example, when I
> boot
> > the first time that I click the GNOME menu panel
> it
> > delay a few seconds in open, during this process
> my HD
> > reach 100 % of utilization.
> > Any body know why?

> Gnome-panel is probably reading system menu entries
> and corresponding 
> icon images, since stuff hasn't been cached yet.
> This might take a tiny 
> bit of time on slow HD's (A 4200RPM HD is slow).
> It's normal. 
> Application loading times on laptops with such HDs
> aren't very 
> impressive, generally (I've got one myself). Tried
> firing up Firefox or 
> Thunderbird ? It's like putting a steam locomotive
> into motion, if the 
> HD's got to do all the work. I make coffee or play
> tic-tac-toe while 
> waiting (OK, those are two of the worst wrt. to
> startup-time, after 
> OpenOffice).
> 
> -- 
> < Øyvind Stegard < oyvinst at ifi uio no >
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