[SATLUG] I/O Questions

[Eli]

> Co-incidentally, I think I may know the reason for the slowness.  It
> seems that I'm having a heat issue.  I'm getting errors in the syslog
> mentioning an overheating of the processor, and that it's throttling
> down the process to let it cool off.  Seems to happen when I hit the
> drive real hard like when I load up my inbox with 15000+ mail messages
> and pine or horde/imp starts hitting it hard.  Going to get a better
> cpu fan on payday and see if that will cure the problem.
>
> Ed

Sort of reminds me of the time I had puzzling errors when trying to
install an OS to an ornery system.  I couldn't figure it out for a little
while till I realized that the cpu heatsink was stuffed to the gills with
dust bunnies.

I was getting file copy errors, and when I cleaned out the heatsink, the
errors went away, and everything ran great!

~e