Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 01:25:31 -0800 From: "Mike Batchelor" <smujohnson@home.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Memory Caching Message-ID: <003201c04c8a$9209fda0$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4207.2601" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey guys,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recently tried to delete the /usr/ports directory off FreeBSD for a fresh install.. and I was amazed at how</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS - My `top` displays 12K Cache. I don't know if this helps. Thanks</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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