On Friday 01 October 2010, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 01.10.2010 03:12, schrieb Adam Carter: > > Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow. > > > > So does that then mean that my options are; > > 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking > > 2. Get an SSD > > > > Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i > > can do about 1 without a backup and restore operation? Or will the > > fragmentation be very small on reiser3 anyway (i mount with notail) so I > > should just accept things as they are. > > To prevent fragmentation, try to always keep a decent amount of free > space on each partition. That way, the FS driver can allocate space for > new files without too much fragmentation (a fragment every 2 MB or so > doesn't really hurt performance).
you obviously never used a tape drive...
