From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 28 0: 4:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1C637B416 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:04:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAS83ZS55402; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:33:36 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:33:35 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Harry Putnam Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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