Re: swap file writes

2007-12-05 Fir de Conversatie skelker
Thanks for the responses. I should give more context. I was in the process of tracking down how some data files our applications use became so fragmented. We use Windows 2003 server, and have not historically used de-fragmenting software (although we have now started to do so). We had

swap file writes

2007-12-04 Fir de Conversatie skelker
I have noticed that swap file writes are done in 4K blocks, but file reads are done in 64K blocks. If it isn't possible to adjust this behavior with configuration, then I suggest opening this up as a performance issue that could be addressed in future releases of gvim? Opening a large file would

Re: swap file writes

2007-12-04 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
skelker wrote: I have noticed that swap file writes are done in 4K blocks, but file reads are done in 64K blocks. If it isn't possible to adjust this behavior with configuration, then I suggest opening this up as a performance issue that could be addressed in future releases of gvim? Opening

Re: swap file writes

2007-12-04 Fir de Conversatie Nikolai Weibull
On Dec 4, 2007 5:40 PM, Tony Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: skelker wrote: I have noticed that swap file writes are done in 4K blocks, but file reads are done in 64K blocks. If it isn't possible to adjust this behavior with configuration, then I suggest opening this up

Re: swap file writes

2007-12-04 Fir de Conversatie Nikolai Weibull
On Dec 4, 2007 7:40 PM, Tony Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless, I wonder how much of an issue this really is. It seems to me that the code is quite optimized How much of an issue the size of the writes, that is. [1] fsync is a slow operation, especially on a reiser4