[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure - but how long does it take on one of your fast new MFT drives ;-)
Actually, it is exactly the same speed. The temp files that UV uses to do sorts are accessed linearly so regular arrays work just great. It is random access and updates that kill rotating disks. With Linux it is pretty easy to tell what is going on. 'iostat' can tell you the average IO length and give you an idea of how busy your drives or arrays are.
I was kinda surprised that he was taking several hours and my test was 9 minutes. After all, I was testing on 1 80G WD 7200 RPM IDE drive on an AMD Athlon 64 3400 (single core). Not exactly a "high end server". He must have a much larger data set or his server is really busy.
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