On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Peter Teuben wrote: > I'll answer my own question here: i disabled the HAL daeamon, and that pretty > much did the job: > /etc/init.d/haldaemon stop > there is still some residual performance jitten due to the automounting CD > in gnome, but it's not as bad as stopping hald. This should be a lot better with the latest hald update. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148 for more details. Michael Young