From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 21 09:49:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA23452 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.local.sunyit.edu (A-V25.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.211.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA23447 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brightmn@localhost) by server.local.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA09936 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:51:45 GMT Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:51:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: File systems slowness? In-Reply-To: <199707210637.IAA20692@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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