From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 1:25:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.bc.home.com (ha1.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com [24.2.10.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B260637B4CF for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:25:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from godlike ([24.69.237.141]) by mail.rdc1.bc.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001111092518.ZURW6933.mail.rdc1.bc.home.com@godlike> for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:25:18 -0800 Message-ID: <003201c04c8a$9209fda0$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com> From: "Mike Batchelor" To: Subject: Memory Caching Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:25:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0029_01C04C47.72B7A1C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0029_01C04C47.72B7A1C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey guys, I recently tried to delete the /usr/ports directory off FreeBSD for a = fresh install.. and I was amazed at how long it took to delete it. In fact, i never got around to finish = removing it cause it took so long. So.... is it possible that I'm not = getting any efficient memory caching? I have 128 Megs ram = installed..and a 20.4 gig HD /w 2048k cache.. To see actually how fast it was deleting, I was using "df" while it was = deleting and it said about 1 meg was deleted for every 5 seconds. Is = this normal? I remember how under Windows, it would take seconds to = delete large amounts of files. Can anyone help? Thanks! PS - My `top` displays 12K Cache. I don't know if this helps. Thanks ------=_NextPart_000_0029_01C04C47.72B7A1C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hey guys,

I recently tried to delete the = /usr/ports directory=20 off FreeBSD for a fresh install.. and I was amazed at how

long it took to delete it. In = fact, i never=20 got around to finish removing it cause it took so long. So.... is = it=20 possible that I'm not getting any efficient memory caching? I have = 128=20 Megs ram installed..and a 20.4 gig HD /w 2048k cache..

To see actually how fast it was = deleting, I was=20 using "df" while it was deleting and it said about 1 meg was deleted for = every 5=20 seconds. Is this normal? I remember how under Windows, it = would=20 take seconds to delete large amounts of files. Can anyone = help?=20 Thanks!

PS - My `top` displays 12K = Cache. I=20 don't know if this helps. Thanks

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