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Article #933Re: Fragmentation & performance
From: John Kheit
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 04:30
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 04:30
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I've had my swap file grow to 400+ megs!!!! But that wasnt what really trashed my drive. I was moving literally hundreds of thousands of files around and some were HUGE and some were incredibly tiny. Anyway if you move that much stuff around you hard drive things start to get mushed to and fro after time. Again after doing a rebuild the system was running at least 50% faster. The swap space may have been part of the problem. I know that unix takes measures to prevent fragmantation but nothing to take care of the INEVITABLE fragmentation that will occur. On the mac there used to be an init (daemon more or less) that used to defragment the drive in the background. Something like this would work wonders for a NeXT system; the NeXT seems to be a BIG mover of data-- much more data flow than your average workstation or PC (at least from what I've seen). later, John -- NeXT Campus Consultant---Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |my %^) John Kheit/monoChrome | |fried %-) 173 Westgate Drive | Audix#5512 |brain %>) Edison, NJ 08820-1163 | kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu,szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!gandalf.rutgers.edu!szatrows From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Fragmentation & performance Message-ID: <Nov.5.23.30.30.1992.1546@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Date: 6 Nov 92 04:30:31 GMT References: <Nov.5.01.28.54.1992.15738@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov5.173551.8841@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22