(dell8200) laptop with disk(hda) and cd(hdb) too busy?

[Peter Teuben]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, M A Young wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Peter Teuben wrote:
> > I'll answer my own question here: i disabled the HAL daeamon, and that pretty
> > much did the job:
> > 	/etc/init.d/haldaemon stop
> > there is still some residual performance jitten due to the automounting CD
> > in gnome, but it's not as bad as stopping hald.
> This should be a lot better with the latest hald update. See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148
> for more details.


wow, that's quite a trail. Some comments even point back to the
problems i added to bugzilla ages ago when magicdev (and autorun in KDE)
where the culprit! But it's basically the same thing I believe.

- peter