On 2022-03-03, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > You mention "legacy" options in the BIOS, you may be running an old > machine. But also look at softdep and noatime mount options, softdep > is a HUGE performance gain, noatime is a nice little kick with seemingly
softdep can help if you are working on larger numbers of files but won't help for, say, writes to one big file. (but it can also turn some io errors, which the machine might possibly otherwise recover from, into hard crashes) the effect is usually quite a lot smaller on SSDs.
