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- From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
- Subject: Re: Favourite DOMAIN/OS features (or mis-features) (slow i/o)
- Message-ID: <ianh.712189522@morgana>
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- Organization: BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories, AUSTRALIA
- References: <199207212228.AA01227@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> <1992Jul22.110318.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> <1992Jul23.080828.23127@eurotherm.co.uk> <5a29eefd.cb12@dabo.citi.umich.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 22:25:22 GMT
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- rees@dabo.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:
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- >Actually, ios isn't what makes disk io slow.
-
- Then what does??
-
- We have a DN5500 with a (supposedly) fast 700Mb disk acting as a news server
- and it just gets appallingly slow whenever it has to do anything that
- resembles a lot of i/o eg news unpacking, omniback backups, compress for
- news batching etc. In fact it comes close to stopping if these operations
- happen to overlap :-(
-
- I'd **luv** to be able to tune _something_ to make it go just a teensy bit
- faster,
-
- ian
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