well, on other pc with 2.8 GHz HT, 768 MB RAM, HD Seagate ST3120022A 7200 rpm, fc4 is doing the same that on my laptop... a hard disk of 7200 rmp is slow? G --- Øyvind Stegard <oyvinst@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > 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). > > -- > < Øyvind Stegard < oyvinst at ifi uio no > > < http://www.oyvind.nu/ > < `Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.' > > > ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es
