Weird slowdown
I''ve noticed that when I do anything that involves disk access (copying files, compiling, running anything that writes to the disk...) there is a slowdown in my system.
I'm running Gentoo, so I get to do lots of compiling. When the compling is finished, I notice that the clock is always wrong. It slows down quite a bit. I've also noticed, when I'm not compiling, that KDE seems kinda jerky especially when copying or writing is going on.
I'm running a AMD Duron @ 1015mhz w/ 256 MB of ram. This is a brand new computer. My old computer a Celeron 500 w/ 192 mb of ram, did not have these problems. Even with gentoo. In fact, I could run X with the old one while compiling and not have nearly the same amount of slow down as I do now. And the clock didn't slow down either.
Does anyone know why this might be happening or what I might do about it.
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