On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Scott Lawrence <bytbox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My experience is that freezes are almost always associated with the hard > drive having spun down, and needing to spin up before something can be read > from the disk. (It just happened, as I was typing that sentence.) Tweak > power settings to make spin-downs more rare, or banish them altogether if > you're willing to take a minor hit to power consumption. I run the laptop from AC power almost all the time, so I disabled most of the powersafer stuff that would hit the performance. The HDD never spins down, but even if it does, the arch system is on an SSD. I have to emphasis, the system itself remains perfectly responsive. If music plays in the background, I can start/stop with keyboard shortcuts and it responds instatnly. Only the picture freezes, and even then the mousecursos moves smoothly! This is not a system-responsiveness bug. -- János
