Re: File read speed *strongly* degraded on one partition only
On Tue, 27 May 2003 23:41:08 +1000
bob parker <bob_parker@dodo.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> Can anyone point me at anything that would help me figure out what's
>> going on, and how to recover my lost I/O speed? What am I missing
>> here as to why this would occur?
>>
>>
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hde10 56563100 49769796 6793304 88% /home
>>
>
> Wild guess - the 88% full may be your problem.
Really? I figured that writes would start to get slower as the
partition got closer to full; but reads as well, and by such a
large factor, when that much of the disk is still around? (not
arguing -- I honestly don't know the answer)
> I have found that comparing large files is done quicker by doing an
> md5sum on each instead of diff. In my case the files are always on the
> saem ide chain so YMMV.
I'll check that out, thanks muchly.
-c
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