Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: 2.1.65 slowdown? | Date | 19 Nov 1997 17:06:21 +0100 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.971119095638.28363A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>, Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote: >On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Richard Gooch wrote: > >> Hi, all. I have a perl script (latex2html, actually) which reads >> lots of small input files and then writes to some output file(s). I >> notice that with 2.1.65 my disc head is moving quite a bit, which >> didn't happen with 2.1.62. This happens even if all the input files >> are in the cache. With 2.1.62 this processing was almost silent, now >> with 2.1.65 there is heaps of head movement (and the operation seems >> slower). >[SNIPPED] > >Get the source code for init. Search for "sync()". Comment it out >and re-compile.
That might help, yes. Note that sysvinit-2.72 (the latest) already does away with the sync() in the main loop.
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