On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 18:40 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: > Stating the obvious: > > You should ensure that the machine is as dust-free as possible. Run > it with the case open Actually, that advice will introduce a lot more dust into your system if you live in my country. Singapore is blanketed by haze right now from forest fires in Indonesia. The dust gets literally everywhere ! :) I've noticed at least one significant difference as well, since the new upgrade. I'm running it on a laptop and the hard disk seems to get accessed a lot more, though swap space does not appear to be used. With "top" I get this: Swap: 1015800k total, 0k used, 1015800k free, 144964k cached I know the hard disk gets accessed more because there is a kind of "gulping" sound every time the hard disk "moves". With previous kernels, it didn't "gulp" as much. Of course, I haven't gone deeply into this to find out more, so I can't say if it is real or if it is a result of the new kernel. One thing though: my laptop seems to respond a little quicker. Again, not sure if it is the kernel. -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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