Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:13:15 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extreme filesystem sloth Message-ID: <0111280213150A.69260@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011128165908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <XFMail.20011128165908.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:29, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 28-Nov-2001 Harry Putnam wrote: > > 4.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 4005 (Pentium II 233mhz) > > > > Let me preface these remarks with a comment to set the tone. > > This is not an attempt at starting a religous war a la > > linux vs FreeBSD. > > > > I suspect what I see is the result of poor or misguided configs on my > > part but have no clue what things to look at. > > Turn softupdates on. > (man tunefs) > > Possibly also turn write caching on if it is off. > (man ata) Also consider upgrading to 4.4-stable. It has a new disk layout algorithm which some people have reported to provide speedups on the order of 20x (!) (Though you have to empty and re-fill your paritions to take full advantage of it.) > > --- > 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 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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