On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, M A Young wrote: > 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. wow, that's quite a trail. Some comments even point back to the problems i added to bugzilla ages ago when magicdev (and autorun in KDE) where the culprit! But it's basically the same thing I believe. - peter