On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:20:55 +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: > Because the code does not moderate its write rate you have to watch > the hourglass as it saves those files to disc. This is made much > worse, as as I understand it from knowlageable RISC OS people, because > disc writes are not performed in the background.
Same problem on AmigaOS I think, although as I'm using a proper HDD the delay is negligible (and the disk cache makes a noticeable difference). > In your example if we assume you managed to get four megabytes of > cached data to be written and it took 30 seconds to achive that, we > get a write rate of around 130K/second or roughly a Megabit/second. > Your network connection does not have to be very good at all to outrun > the disc and hence the disc cache is making a horrible trade in your > case. Remember that write speeds on SD cards are significantly slower than read speeds, and lots of small writes are slower still. It would be interesting to see if a Raspberry Pi running the GTK version from SD card has the same slowness. Chris
