[ILUG] Re Mandrake 10

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 11:11, david jamison wrote:
> Well, much to my embarrassment the problem seems to have gone away. We
> upgraded two desktops from 9.1 to 10.0 and they were both appallingly slow
> on opening menus and applications (several seconds to open the main desktop
> menu). After using them for a while they seem to have settled down.. not a
> very satisfactory outcome as I still don't know why they were slow in the

updatedb is probably the cause of the slowdown. It really hammers that hard 
disk.

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John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
MandrakeClub Silver Member.          http://www.dublinux.net

Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-13mdk
 11:47:18 up 12 days,  3:25,  1 user,  load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.34