Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:37:40 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.65 slowdown? |
| |
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > 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.
Yes, but... what's changed from 2.1.62 to 2.1.65? I didn't get this behaviour with 2.1.62.
Regards,
Richard....
| |