On Sep 3, 2010, at 10:01 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
Is Spotlight Indexing running some kind of interference? ... that
takes a long time ...
I don't think Spotlight has anything to do with it.
I just ran Repair Permissions on three identical clones that were new,
on a newly formatted and partitioned HD under Snow Leopard 10.6.2.
This differences in times were substantial. The 1st clone took about 4
SECONDS; the 2nd clone took 1 minute; and the clone took 40 seconds. I
repeated these each once, and the 2nd times confirmed the 1st timings.
This would seem to indicate that physical location on the HD is
important, and since these clones were brand new and never booted, or
written before, there should have been zero fragmentation. This might
mean that highly fragmented HDs that have had heavy usage take longer
to Repair Permissions?
The big difference is in Leopard 10.5, which is always super slow
compared to either Tiger or Snow Leopard.
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