On 04/04/2011 03:36 PM, assas1n wrote:
>
> Its weird because, when i leave the pc unatended for a while and then
> for example launch konqueror it takes maybe 5-10 seconds for it to
> open.
i think that is caused by various power savings functions…either in
the machines BIOS, or in Linux, or both…
many machines will let the hard drive spin down after some minutes of
inactivity…of course if you have a torrent running i’d guess the
drive is active…but, none of the desktop things would be going…
and, if you have a torrent going full blast, then because nothing else
is happening the torrent will have taken over almost all of the
memory, clock cycles and ins-and-outs…to move max data…which is
what you want, right?
and, then when you come back and start move the mouse, hit the key,
and etc the system has shut down the screen saver, crank up the
graphics chip, move the mouse cursor as you commanded, maybe bring
FireFox to live again and while it throttles back the torrent, network
and hard drive demands, rearrange the memory, etc etc etc so as to
release resources you are demanding be put to use in other places…
it doesn’t take long, but it is not instantaneous…
do you dual/multi-boot? how do your other systems compare…i mean,
maybe you do have a problem which can be solved…10 seconds sounds
high to me…have you actually put a stop watch on it?
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