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Re: Device detection?



> The problem with that method is that, at least under Windows, it
> causes the hard drive to thrash horribly.  I assume it's because it
> checkpoints after checking for *each* device.  I'm not sure I really
> want to introduce that sort of thrashing slowness into Debian

checkpointing doesn't have to thrash the harddisk. consider this -- if you
have a program that flushes output to disk for each line it writes to a file,
does it thrash the harddisk?

checkpointing is needed for lots of apps... it doesn't necessary cause any
thrashing.

randolph
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