On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:24 pm, Clayton wrote:
There are times when I simply cannot do anything at all until the OS finishes whatever it is that's keeping it busy and returns control to me.
I had problems like this with 9.2, never got to the bottom of it but worked around it by disabling a 2 gig swap partition. Back in 8.1 there was a disk tuning needed to tell it to hold less buffers and flush them less often. That system would become unresponsive for 2 minutes at a time. FWIW michaelj PS: My apologies to the SLES list, I accidentally cross posted. PPS: On the 9.2 workstation, it was an IDE drive on 8.1 it was a SCSI based server. I think DMA was turned on, why would it be turned off. -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.