yordy wrote:
Hi
I have a Toshiba Laptop (2.8 GHz, 768 MB RAM, HD
TOSHIBA
MK4025GAS 4200rpm, Intel 852 video card and 1 GB of
swap) with Fedora Core 4 (GNOME 2.10) installed, I
note that is a slightly slow, for example, when I boot
the first time that I click the GNOME menu panel it
delay a few seconds in open, during this process my HD
reach 100 % of utilization.
Any body know why?
Gnome-panel is probably reading system menu entries and corresponding
icon images, since stuff hasn't been cached yet. This might take a tiny
bit of time on slow HD's (A 4200RPM HD is slow). It's normal.
Application loading times on laptops with such HDs aren't very
impressive, generally (I've got one myself). Tried firing up Firefox or
Thunderbird ? It's like putting a steam locomotive into motion, if the
HD's got to do all the work. I make coffee or play tic-tac-toe while
waiting (OK, those are two of the worst wrt. to startup-time, after
OpenOffice).
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