On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 19:20 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:40:59PM -0500, Steffen Persvold wrote: > > I noticed it when trying to start applications such as Evolution, > > FireFox, OpenOffice etc. but then I started testing it with hdparm -t : > > Can you file a bug on that and include the identify data for the drives. My > guess would be haldaemon is polling the drives and that would muck up the > performance in some cases. However it shouldnt be polling too often > Alan, I'd be happy to. I will also include /proc/ide/piix output. Regards, Steffen