On 14 Jul 2014, at 12:53pm, Kees Nuyt <k.n...@zonnet.nl> wrote: > Aha, I see. Yes, ill-behaving filesystems can do that. > The question is whether experiences on Windows 98 are still > relevant for rules of thumb in 2014.
I mentioned Windows 98 to let you know how out-of-date my text was. I no longer have a job which involves testing like that so I can't do an updated one. At least one of the things lying about updates was the hard disk driver. (Samsung, if I recall correctly, though I doubt any competing manufacturer was any better.) I bet they're still using more or less the same driver. This was, of course, a hard disk intended for use in a perfectly normal desktop computer, not for use in a server. By the way, anyone reading this who might want to know why everything lies: doing proper updates, and checking to make sure hardware has changed before software can move on slows down the operation of your computer /a lot/. For a dedicated server you might want it. For your desktop computer you really don't. I once set up server-class hardware with server-class hard disk with the jumper settings set to "Yes, really wait for writes to happen before acknowledging it.". The computer took over 10 minutes to boot and another 10 minutes before I had Word loaded. Once it was running with a reasonable number of apps open, I think I managed to get almost three characters a second when typing a Word document. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
