Re: The time has come (part II) ...
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 10:12:30PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
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> Oh. So *that's* the famous sun4c slowdown.
>
> I noticed that too, when I installed my machine. I just assumed that my
> disks were slow :-)
>
> I've never really noticed the slowdown when the machine's in use, but I use
> it very lightly.
Doing disk intensive things is when i noticed it most (large files, fsck,
mke2fs, etc), but I also noticed it slightly after the memory had been
filled up with cache like after updatedb runs or compiling large programs.
2.1.x has made my system far more useful :)
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