Hi, On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:20:51PM -0400, khromy wrote: > When I copy a file(13Megs) from /home/ to /tmp/, sync takes almost 2 minutes. > When I copy the same file to /usr/local/, sync returns almost right away. Both > filesystems are ext3 and are on the same harddrive. When sync is running, > the harddrive light stays on but I don't hear it doing anything. dmesg doesn't > show any errors either. Below is the `time` output for each command. If you > need anymore information let me know.. Ugh. My first guess would be that you have one enormously fragmented filesystem. 13MB in 2 minutes? A modern disk should get that amount of data to disk in one second, but massive fragmentation can simply kill disk performance. If /home is on the same disk, do you get the same problem trying to write there? --Stephen
