On Tue, 13 February, 2007 12:21 am, Evan Hisey wrote:
> Pascal-
> I had a similiar but less stark issue with to nearly identical
> hardrives. Try using hdparm /dev/<drive> to see what the settings are on
> each drive. I would expect the old 40 to be a bit slower but not that
> much. The -t option run gives okay bench marks but needs to be run about 3
> times for an accurate feel of performance.
>
> Evan
>
>
>
> On 2/12/07, Pascal Schirrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Duncan Webb a écrit :
>>
>>> On Sun, 11 February, 2007 9:48 pm, Pascal Schirrmann wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I don't think that I saw that om my other system, so I believe that
>>>> this has something to see with my computer (or computer
>>>> configuration).
>>>>
>>>> Did someone had the same trouble, and if so, much better, a
>>>> solution ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are some things to try. First don't use live tv, just in case
>>> there is a problem with xine or your disks.
>>>
>> Hi Duncan, thanks for your help, but I should have explained better :
>> On
>> my system, removing a file is excessively slow and seems also to be CPU
>> intensive.
>>
>> I just did some fast tests on my two systems. (Mandriva 2007, kernel
>> 2.6.17, two athlon processor -nearly the same speed)
>> On the 'good system : Fairly modern 160 Gb Hard Drive (3 year old, I
>> think), chipset Nforce 2. Removing a 1 Gb file take 1.28 second
>> On the 'Bad' system ('Old' 40 Gb disk, but DMA33 still activated,
>> Chipset SIS)
>> Removing a 1.2 Gb file : 30 seconds !
>> So, you can imagine that the 200 Mb cache file removing run for 4
>> seconds.
>>
>> My trouble is not freevo related, I just wonder if someone encounter
>> such trouble on a freevo box (because we commonly work with BIG files, we
>> should be more 'attracted' by such trouble) and if yes, if someone find
>> a solution or had some tracks for me.AFAIK the deletion of a file is simply removing an inode with an ext2 partition, this is why the remove os call is unlink, with a journalling file system such as ext3, xfs or reiserfs it has more work to do. I would try different file systems, first try ext2 as it has no journalling so the disk operations are reduced, xfs is supposed to be good too. Personally I use ext3 because I can resize the partitions with Partition Magic. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
