On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Peter Teuben wrote:
I'll answer my own question here: i disabled the HAL daeamon, and
that pretty
much did the job:
/etc/init.d/haldaemon stop
there is still some residual performance jitten due to the automounting CD
in gnome, but it's not as bad as stopping hald.
This should be a lot better
with the latest hald update. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138148
for more details.
Michael Young