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From: shores@fergvax.unl.edu (Shores)
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Subject: Re: I would love anyone's thoughts on this problem
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Date: 23 Jun 91 19:58:37 GMT
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In <1991Jun23.024443.22049@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (STEVE_____(superboy)) writes:

>Why do I often get a huge lag under certain circumstances with 6.0.7
>on my classic, which I never get with 6.0.3, or sys7? I refuse to turn to 
>sys7(let's stay away from that though), and would like to continue with
>this version. . .HOwever, when I copy a file, or update the system under
>font/da mover, occassionally, there is this huge lag where the computer just
>freezes, and the stupid little watch hand just goes around, around, and 
>around. . .

I don't really like being "watch"ed forever either.  I installed a nifty
cdev called "In Use" which flashes a little square in the upper left
corner whenever a SCSI hard drive is active.  This is especially great
if you don't have an in use light on your hard drive (like me).  At
least now I can predict better whether or not the machine is actually
hanged or not!  If it turns out that you have excessive disk activity,
you may want to check how fragmented your disk is, and if it is, de-frag
it with a commericial program like DiskExpress, or re-format your disk.
I was amazed how much faster my machine acted when it lost it's
defragment virginity!

   Tom... Tommy... Thomas... the Tom-ster, the Tom-boy, the Tomminator...
   ... Tom Shores, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska.
   ... shores@fergvax.unl.edu