From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:37:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539DF60A.7010606@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201406150827.48940.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On 15/06/2014 09:27, Mick wrote:
>> And maybe your disks are tired too :-) . You do have hdparm results from
>> > 4 years ago to compare?
> I have not install hdparm on this laptop, thinking that I do not really need
> it for anything. Anyway, do disks spin slower with age? Even if their
> bearings theoretically wear out and eventually slow down, would this be
> perceptible?
>
> What readings would I be comparing? hdparm -t and -T?
Yes, I'd look at those two. If disk performance was suffering due to
age, I'd expect your seek times to suffer and that should show up with -tT
Not too sure really how wear and tear translates to real life; overall
it's probably just simple bloat you have, to borrow Walter's analogy you
started with a sub-compact and now have a ginormous SUV!
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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2014-06-14 22:20 [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding? Mick
2014-06-14 22:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-06-15 7:27 ` Mick
2014-06-15 19:37 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2014-06-15 21:52 ` Mick
2014-06-17 20:44 ` Walter Dnes
2014-06-15 3:15 ` Walter Dnes
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