Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:33:35 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Message-ID: <XFMail.20011128183335.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <m1667vpeu1.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
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On 28-Nov-2001 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off. > > (man ata) > > OK, thanks Daniel. Look like good clues. I'm eager to try them out. > Do you think these things will improve things quite noticably? > > I can't test it just now as I'm rsyncing some 600mb of mail and news > across from my desktop. (Leaving town in the morning) and that will > take a while. But looking at the man pages its hard to get an idea > how much of improvement this might make. Probably vast. Just softupdates will increase the speed of metadata heavy operations (eg file deletion) a lot. Also make sure you are comparing apples with apples.. I note you said the linux box was a different spec - that doesn't make for informative comparisons. --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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