On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> wrote: > With a filesystem it will write the dirty buffers to disk in the > background and then drop the clean pages from the cache quite > consistently. This leaves the code involved with moving the mouse > pointer alone and functioning smoothly.
That's not what I have observed. The command "mv /mnt/usb/* /mnt/nfs" can cause X related stuff to be swapped out and the mouse pointer to freeze. It happens to me repeatedly running Unstable with kernel 3.0.0-2. On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Having /tmp on / would quickly degrade performance as the filesystems > free space becomes fragmented over time. So if you end up with a tmpfs > for /tmp on such a system you already did install your systems wrong for > your use case under the old setup. So only suboptimal configurations are > hurt by defaulting to tmpfs. :) Could you please point me to a reference about some research on ext3/4 fragmentation supporting this claim? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
