From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed?
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:23:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010011823.01414.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA59EFE.2020403@f_philipp.fastmail.net>
On Friday 01 October 2010, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 01.10.2010 03:12, schrieb Adam Carter:
> > Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow.
> >
> > So does that then mean that my options are;
> > 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking
> > 2. Get an SSD
> >
> > Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i
> > can do about 1 without a backup and restore operation? Or will the
> > fragmentation be very small on reiser3 anyway (i mount with notail) so I
> > should just accept things as they are.
>
> To prevent fragmentation, try to always keep a decent amount of free
> space on each partition. That way, the FS driver can allocate space for
> new files without too much fragmentation (a fragment every 2 MB or so
> doesn't really hurt performance).
you obviously never used a tape drive...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 10:58 [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed? Adam Carter
2010-09-30 13:10 ` Florian Philipp
2010-09-30 16:00 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-30 16:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-30 16:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2010-09-30 21:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-09-30 13:26 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-09-30 16:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-10-01 1:12 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-01 4:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-10-01 8:42 ` Florian Philipp
2010-10-01 16:23 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2010-10-02 2:11 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-02 11:54 ` Florian Philipp
2010-10-02 12:11 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-10-02 12:44 ` Florian Philipp
2010-10-02 15:06 ` Florian Philipp
2010-10-01 9:05 ` Daniel Troeder
2010-10-01 14:40 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2010-10-02 17:29 ` Daniel Troeder
2010-10-03 0:13 ` James
2010-10-06 8:04 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-06 18:52 ` Daniel Troeder
2010-10-06 22:59 ` Adam Carter
2010-10-07 9:33 ` Daniel Troeder
2010-10-18 10:03 ` Adam Carter
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