Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:51:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <brightmn@a-v25.rh.sunyit.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: File systems slowness? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970703124751.9923D-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707210637.IAA20692@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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I really like freebsd, however when i did a "rm -rf *" in the /usr/ports directory it took over 5 minutes to clear the directory. My system is a 586/133 with 64megs of ram, the motherboard supports mode 4 PIO and mode 2 DMA, i know there are a lot of files in that directory, but isn't that a little excessive? I assume the disk was going crazy going back and forth from inode space to data space on the disk... but with 64 megs of ram i thought it would try some caching perhaps? doesn't freebsd have write-behind caching? or does it need to be enabled seperately? Alfred Perlstein perlsta@sunyit.edu
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