[ale] Long lag for command line

[agcarver+ale at acarver.net (Alex Carver)]

Good thought but no, these drives don't spin down (there's also no 
desktop environment, pure ssh).

On 6/28/2013 16:52, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> It's possible your hard drives are spun down.  (It's also possible that's not relevant.)  I've seen occasions in Windows where the machine would take a couple of seconds to respond due to this.  Sometimes, you can hear the hdd spin up when you do something.  I had to go in and turn off that feature.  You may not be able to do that with "green" drives.  Settings for this are usually in the power settings.
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> On Mint using the Mate desktop environment (Gnome 2), there is a check box you can untick in power preferences that will keep the hdd's from spinning down.