Hi, On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 06:25:14AM -0400, khromy wrote: > 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. I wouldn't have thought so, no. --Stephen
