From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P1bD9-0006b2-Da for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:43:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49D89E091F; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367F8E091F for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1791557; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 04:42:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:42:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=dvIt/oA8mxHNcd1luw6jYCn0Unk=; b=DoGqbUid+jGkSp9AB2tfn3XbIcxpvxUc7eDMzfLEJ4jxWh6v1T5bjgsNy5vORim0TaCGqjDUlEQwFD09rgfXS6lF6STu+jCz4KfKC/YSp8BQuDBITJdD0vWLD/1nsz/hh/MaEkIVMmsNTIBtQ4UkkUnCj4nhDoezKO8rA3Jhcw0= X-Sasl-enc: GwcbInaC4Het1IL1/xl+IOmFBKEdM0AkaqqfAsuFxgRh 1285922569 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B156401800 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 04:42:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4CA59EFE.2020403@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:42:38 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100927 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed? References: <201009301853.28825.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig83E6B46C48FBC868F899C9D8" X-Archives-Salt: ecce07fb-a80e-4dab-a530-26846a309c91 X-Archives-Hash: e7b0abc9b888ed6056ccc358d8235c32 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig83E6B46C48FBC868F899C9D8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 01.10.2010 03:12, schrieb Adam Carter: > Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow. >=20 > So does that then mean that my options are; > 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking > 2. Get an SSD >=20 > 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). If you had enough free space on your partition when you created the mp3-files there, I don't think fragmentation is an issue here. The files likely never grew in size which would cause fragmentation. Of course, the situation changes again when the free space on your file system was already heavily fragmented even if there was enough of it. It all depends on your usage pattern of that disk to make an educated guess if that is true. The good thing about hard disks is that you can usually hear whether they are seeking or reading sequentially. If you hear a lot of seeking on sequential operations, it is time to reformat the partition or at least erase and recreate the affected files. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp --------------enig83E6B46C48FBC868F899C9D8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkylnwIACgkQqs4uOUlOuU98WgCcDS1PfGfO7F+1NeQQA0jHcD+R 6dwAmwWTaA3syq/B3fyNocuQprashTQ9 =jwII -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig83E6B46C48FBC868F899C9D8--