On 05/13/2013 11:55 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: > Using Fedora 18, KDE 4.10.2 on x86_64 laptop with kernel 3.8.11-200 > and nvidia proprietary drivers. > > I have two hard disk. One SSD with / and swap and one hybrid with /home. > Recently, I remarked extremely long times (>60 s) to open some > programs like firefox or dolphin, the latter being the most critical. > I suspect disk access to slow down the machine as this happens when > the processor is nearly idle. > What can I check? Can I check the hard disks, how? Could it be something else? hdparm -t /dev/sda hdparm -t /dev/sdb as a first step (root user needed). -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org