2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

[Alan Cox]

> sluggish feel to it at times.  When switching from X to the
> console and back often I have to wait anywhere up to 5-10 seconds

Sillies check first: Do you have your disk set to spin down ?

> is pulling it out of swap space or something.  X starts up slow
> as well, and when PINE checkpoints my 20Mb email folders it takes
> much longer or so it seems.

Do you get a lot of disk activity at these points?

ALan


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