i thank you for your input about defragging. i am more of a windows
person... mainly because i play alot of games. although, i am working with
learning linux, thus the server
as far as the defrag, i knew it was a windows thing and i had never seen
anything like that for linux, but was just wondering if there was something
similar
From: Alan Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] a Ferrari in a traffic jam (was: why is it slow?)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:17:45 -0400
initially, i thought it was because i uploaded all those pictures to the
server and it needed to be defraged?? (can you defrag a linux harddrive?
if so how)
Under normal circumstances, you should never have to de-frag
a Linux filesystem. Just Google for "defrag Linux", and you'll
get a lot of links like this:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1455687,00.asp
When someone complains about a computer system being "slow", a
lot of well-intentioned people will offer quick fixes such as
"a faster CPU" or defragging the disk. These seldom fix the
original problem.
As I like to say, you have a Ferrari in a traffic jam.
Your hardware and your filesystem are really fast (on the order
of milliseconds, not in 10's of seconds). But the CPU is waiting
for system until it times out.
One usual suspect is the network. DNS mis-configurations can
cause frequent timeouts. Your other statement about the difference
between the 71.71.xx.xx network and the 192.xx.xx.xx network also
points in this same direction.
Sorry, I have no specific advice to offer for your problem.
I just needed to rant about defragging and faster CPU's.
Alan
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