On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 20:23 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > >> Rodd > > > >What kind of system are you using? What type of CPU? Speed? Amount of > >memory? Type and speed of disk? > > > >Thomas > > > All excellent questions that should have been answered before they were > asked. > > System Type: x86 Laptop > Processor: P3-1GHz. > Memory: 512MB > Harddisk: 40GB, 5400RPM > > RPM used to be much faster at this sort of thing. > > > Rodd "Used to be" before what? Was there a change to the system? What were you running before? I will admit that it sounds like there is something weird on your laptop. I don't have anything that old but it certainly seems like a 1 GHz processor with plenty of RAM should go faster than that. Have you looked at setting the hdparm settings for your disk to speed it up? Have a look in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for some settings you can change to seriously speed up your IDE drive. Past that, I would look at what if anything else is going on on your machine while you run your command. Thomas