Fetched Solaris 9 CDROM images yesterday, unpacked, copied, etc.
Manipulating these 600+ MB files totally kills the machine
(with 256 MB memory). Keystrokes are reacted to after half a minute.
It is impossible to use the mouse since the kernel is too slow
to accept mouse packets within its self-imposed timeout, so that
the logs are full of
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
The clock lost somewhat over 10 minutes.
This is really primitive behaviour.
Andries
[everything vanilla - no settings changed, no hdparm used]
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