Unix pc sluggishness when switching windows

[Craig Campbell]

In article <1991Feb5.040416.354 at shibaya.lonestar.org> afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
 
>So, what is slowly degrading in the kernel that is fixed at boot time?
>Has anybody else noticed this?  Does anybody have a clue as to what it is?
 
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I have found that, if I have a parallel port printer connected to the system,
and the printer is powered off, a lot of disk activity occurs.  
The printer is, of course, configured as well.
This seems related to a lot of activity by one of the first system processes
(can't quite remember which one).

Don't know why.  Don't know if this helps.  Fix was to leave printer on.


later,

craig