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| Beserko 2002-09-29, 1:30 am |
| When I start my system (Mandrake 8.2), the hard drive is running like
crazy for several minutes. I have 256 mb of ram and the same amount of
swap. I know that Linux is putting parts of the system in the ram, but
what can I do to reduce the amount of time that it is doing this operation ?
Bzz.
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| Peter T. Breuer 2002-09-29, 1:30 am |
| Beserko <beserkobob@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> When I start my system (Mandrake 8.2), the hard drive is running like
> crazy for several minutes. I have 256 mb of ram and the same amount of
Well, that sounds fine to me. It's probably making the daily database
that it couldn't make during the night because you switched it off
then.
> swap. I know that Linux is putting parts of the system in the ram, but
It's not! (what???!!).
> what can I do to reduce the amount of time that it is doing this operation ?
Buy a faster cpu or disk? Or leave the computer on at night so you
don't notice it during the day? Or schedule the operation for some time
more convenient to you? Or put something in the startup script for
it that says "not if I just switched on, thank you"?
Peter
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