Starting hal daemon incredibly decrease my hard drive performance

Alexis Muller Alexis.Muller at lifl.fr
Tue Nov 9 01:04:15 PST 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:37 +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
[...]
> > Convincing ? This difference appear by copying many files but not for a
> > single (big or not) file.
> 
> Keep in mind that these files are probably cached after doing this...

Yes indeed. I don't know how to demonstrate that, but i "real life" if i
don't set storage.media_check_enabled to false, all my system is very
slow. Starting applications, browsing file system...
I don't know which tools I can use to measure that, perhaps a video ? ;)

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