On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:42, Brian May wrote: > and I don't think you can really say that this is a slow computer either:
400MHz CPU, 10/15G disks, by today's standards that is rather slow. Compare it to an Athlon 1.2G with 46G drives... > So I can only conclude that something is very odd with this computer, but I > don't know what. One issue is that IO isn't prioritised/scheduled unlike CPU use. This means that a process that schedules a lot of IO (EG doing a find / when atime is enabled) can cause large amounts of disk IO to be queued which kills interactive performance. Maybe some of the options under /proc/sys/vm will let you tune this... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
