[Sheflug] Disk Activity Problems

[Robert Pumphrey <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am having some performance problems with my machine. I have kernel 
2.4.10 built on SuSE 7.1 The machine is a 1.4Gz Athlon machine with 
512Mb RAM and a 40Gb IDE disk.

If I do something that involves lots of disk activity, say copying a 
directory containing 70Mb, the processor load goes upto, say 7 (as 
reported by xload). The X Window manager becomes unusable for maybe a 
minute, and generally, the machine appears to grind to a halt.

I would be grateful for any suggestions as to how I could improve the 
behaviour of my machine.

Regards

Rob

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