While moving a large (1GB) file from one parition to another today, I noticed an odd, reproducable pause. Basicly you create a large file somewhere and then delete it like so:
[9:32pm] brooks@minya (/var/tmp): dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1m count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes transferred in 92.343828 secs (11355128 bytes/sec) [9:34pm] brooks@minya (/var/tmp): rm bigfile Within the next minute or so, I see a pause where the whole system stops for 5-10 seconds. There is a burst of disk activity accompanying this. It's easiest to observe this in X with some active dock apps or monitors running so you'll see them stop updating. Is this something that cane be fixed or is it just life with softupdates? I ask in part because I'm considering a new backup architecture which will generate files in the range of several 100GB so I'd hate to find out this hang is going to be proporational to file size. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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