On Saturday 05 March 2005 19:20, Skunk Worx wrote: >Parameshwara Bhat wrote: >> Any comments ? Or am I missing something ? > >i've been working on a windows XP box, trying to figure out why it >grinds the hard drive all day, on every mouse movement, while linux >plugged into the same machine (same model model/size hard drive > swapped in) does not. > >i've come to the conclusion that, although both 6 gb. drives are > fairly full, the win XP box, as it applies patches and updates and > software, somehow puts them further out on the drive platters while > linux somehow tends to overwrite things when it patches and > updates, or otherwise manages to localize things...or has a better > caching system by default. > >the poor XP machine (with the XP drive plugged it) just starts dying >after getting all the SPs, etc installed...grinding on the hard > drive on any action...the linux HD just gets accessed mostly on > boot up and it's done...with a big fat fedora core install and all > yum updates. > >they are both 6 gb. drives, pretty small, not recommended....i'm >guessing XP has to swing the spindle all over the drive face a lot > while linux does not? > >this is just a theory about a special scenario where XP appears to > be an extremely poor solution compared to linux. > My instant, gut reaction is that your XP box has a keylogger installed, and that it logging every keypress and mouse move. Get yourself a good snooper utility and see what it says about that. It is un-natural, even for a windows box. >-- >sw > >PS: a personal aside...i am no longer a linux advocate...my opinion > is, if you have to ask, you're a windows person anyway, no use > discussing it. the merits of each solution and all opinions either > way are fully documented on the web...to me the choice is obvious, > for a huge number of reasons, but that's just me. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
