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G'day, |
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Grant wrote: |
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> I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It |
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> has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive. |
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> Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of |
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> the application, not the network. It's much slower than my previous |
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> laptop which has much weaker specs. |
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> I noticed the HD light comes on when the system is pausing in firefox |
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> sometimes. I don't have any swap at all, I'm using the CFQ, and /tmp |
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> is mounted on tmpfs. Can anyone suggest where to look? |
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> - Grant |
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Slightly related, but you might want to check and make sure your HD isn't grinding itself to a quick |
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death as is always the case when I'm setting up a laptop: |
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http://en.opensuse.org/Disk_Power_Management |
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Beau Henderson |
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