On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 23:42 -0800, Skunk Worx wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > interesting replies (i've read all of them, only responding to one) but > this is not my box, belongs to an elderly person, not sure why they > should have to go through this. > > windows is really kind of a poor solution in general if it is so easy to > hide keyloggers, etc. (as a casual google shows). > I agree, and it IS easy to do. Processes can be hidden from the task manager so they are never seen. > also not sure why i should have to "dig" for any swap settings, or why > they would be wrong in the first place. > You should not have to dig. that was the comment made about the difficulty with Windows. All versions less than NT/2K use dynamic swap file by default, and as a result cause fragmentation of the swap file after a period of time as it dynamically grows. Only those experienced with the default and how to fix it can avoid the inevitable slowdown in performance. > if you people have some bone to pick with linux, or are pro-windows, > take it off list...it's not a fedora support issue. >
