On Jul 12, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Matt Penna wrote:

> From http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/optimizations/#THREE :
> 
> "Hot File Clustering (HFC) aims to improve the performance of small, 
> frequently accessed files on HFS Plus volumes. This optimization is currently 
> used only on boot volumes."

So the fact that a personal file belonging to a user who hasn't logged in for a 
year is a "hot file" suggests that perhaps there is a "reused address" problem 
going on between that file and some other file that is actually hot.  Sounds 
like a good time to run DiskWarrior.

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