[ale] Long lag for command line

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

It's possible your hard drives are spun down.  (It's also possible that's not relevant.)  I've seen occasions in Windows where the machine would take a couple of seconds to respond due to this.  Sometimes, you can hear the hdd spin up when you do something.  I had to go in and turn off that feature.  You may not be able to do that with "green" drives.  Settings for this are usually in the power settings.

On Mint using the Mate desktop environment (Gnome 2), there is a check box you can untick in power preferences that will keep the hdd's from spinning down.

Sincerely,

Ron



Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

>Anyone ever experience long lags for simple things at the command line?
>
> Right now I've got a Debian system that had been working fine but for 
>some reason now it takes it a few seconds to do something simple like 
>open vi or cat a file -- not even big files, just a few kilobytes or 
>less.  The load average is 1.5 but top doesn't show anything really 
>hitting the CPU.  No cron jobs running at the time, the machine is 
>mostly quiet.  It just handles a few internal activities for me 
>(internal web server, place to compile little things, etc).
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