Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > Noah Roberts wrote: > > > Using an external hard drive seems to help some. > > Did you look at hdparm, esp for the internal drive? More specifically, make sure you are using a driver specific to your machines PCI/disk controller (if one is available) rather than the generic one. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Working with Perforce in my day job makes me really appreciate just how good GNU Arch is." -- Erik de Castro Lopo