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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>,
	Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth
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On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:29, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 28-Nov-2001 Harry Putnam wrote:
> >  4.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 4005 (Pentium II 233mhz)
> >
> >  Let me preface these remarks with a comment to set the tone.
> >  This is not an attempt at starting a religous war a la
> >  linux vs FreeBSD.
> >
> >  I suspect what I see is the result of poor or misguided configs on my
> >  part but have no clue what things to look at.
>
> Turn softupdates on.
> (man tunefs)
>
> Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off.
> (man ata)

Also consider upgrading to 4.4-stable.  It has a new disk layout algorithm 
which some people have reported to provide speedups on the order of 20x (!)

(Though you have to empty and re-fill your paritions to take full advantage 
of it.)

>
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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