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. I just ran fsck and found out that hda1(where /tmp/ is on) is 5.1% non-contiguous. Is that enough for the slowdown? Below is df -h. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 387M 156M 212M 43% / /dev/hda2 3.4G 2.1G 1.1G 65% /home /dev/hda3 10G 6.4G 3.3G 66% /usr -- L1: khromy ;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx
