On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:22:44AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > 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? Yeah, /home/ is on the same disk. Your guess might be right because that's what I was trying to show. When I copy the file, which is in /home/(hda2) to /tmp/(hda1) and I sync, it takes almost 2 minutes. But if I copy the same file, which is in /home/(hda2) to /usr/local/(hda3), sync returns immediately. This disk isn't that old either. hda: Maxtor 51536U3, ATA DISK drive hda: 30015216 sectors (15368 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63, UDMA(66) -- L1: khromy ;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx
