From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 14 5:56:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BCA3D9E for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 05:56:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA15875; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:49:11 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id OAA15214; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:50:48 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C1256885.004C9102 ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:56:18 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: Erik Wenzel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:56:09 +0100 Subject: Re: why is cp so slow? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, some reasons : * the ports tree built out of a very large number of little files * the creation of files involves modification of "meta-data" (that is data describing the organization of files on the disk) * the meta-data modifications are generally done synchronously (the operation succeeds only if the data are really written on disk) * the 2.2.x branch does not use DMA on IDE drives TfH Erik Wenzel on 14/02/2000 12:56:52 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: why is cp so slow? Hi All, why is moving /usr/ports to another Partition taking over 1/2 hour? That's only 4MB. I am using freebsd-stable-2.2.7. :wq erik@todo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message