Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> I just had a quick play with gzip compression on a filesystem and the
>> result was the machine grinding to a halt while copying some large
>> (.wav) files to it from another filesystem in the same pool.
>>
>> The system became very unresponsive, taking several seconds to echo
>> keystrokes. The box is a maxed out AMD QuadFX, so it should have plenty
>> of grunt for this.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Ian
>
> How big were the files, what OS build are you running and how
> much memory on the system? Were you copying in parallel?
>
quadfx> uname -a
SunOS quadfx 5.11 snv_62 i86pc i386 i86pc
quadfx> psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 05/03/2007 14:35:05
on-line since 04/29/2007 22:18:57.
The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 05/03/2007 14:35:05
on-line since 04/29/2007 22:19:04.
The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 2 as of: 05/03/2007 14:35:05
on-line since 04/29/2007 22:19:04.
The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 3 as of: 05/03/2007 14:35:05
on-line since 04/29/2007 22:19:04.
The i386 processor operates at 3000 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
The system has 8MB of RAM and a was using 'cp -r' to copy the directory.
The files are between 15 and 50MB. It's worth pointing out that .wav
files only compress by a few percent.
Ian
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