question about wc on for NON-critical workstation (no flamebait)
For day to day use (programming, netscape, email, etc) will wc on show any performance improvement? jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | Jonathon McKitrick ~ | | I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself. | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: question about wc on for NON-critical workstation (no flamebait)
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:12:41AM -0700, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: | On 2001.07.24 10:09 j mckitrick wrote: | | For day to day use (programming, netscape, email, etc) will wc on show | any | performance improvement? | | jcm | -- | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | | Jonathon McKitrick ~ | | | I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself. | | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message | | | Try it . . . the answer is yes . . . and like everything else | in life (especially entities that are built for speed), it's | a calculated risk. I figure I have a battery pack anyway for the laptop, but I wondered if such a light load would benefit from write-caching anyway, with softupdates running as well. jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | Jonathon McKitrick ~ | | I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself. | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: question about wc on for NON-critical workstation (no flamebait)
j mckitrick wrote: For day to day use (programming, netscape, email, etc) will wc on show any performance improvement? It's hard to tell. You might try switching it on for a week and see if YOU notice any difference. If it doesn't seem to do anything for you, then just turn it back off and leave it be. I suspect you will see speedup in your compiles and extractions. Anything that has a lot of disk write activity is likely to be sped up by enabling the wc, but how much speedup you can actually feel will depend on your machine and you. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen[EMAIL PROTECTED] |\/ | ||/ _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: question about wc on for NON-critical workstation (no flamebait)
Jason Andresen wrote: j mckitrick wrote: For day to day use (programming, netscape, email, etc) will wc on show any performance improvement? It's hard to tell. You might try switching it on for a week and see if YOU notice any difference. If it doesn't seem to do anything for you, then just turn it back off and leave it be. I suspect you will see speedup in your compiles and extractions. Anything that has a lot of disk write activity is likely to be sped up by enabling the wc, but how much speedup you can actually feel will depend on your machine and you. My buildworld on a dual 866 coppermine system went from 42 minutes to 29 minutes. The other side effect was the -j8 parameter finally did something. Before that anything from -j2 on, actually made the buildworld run longer. I think the cpu's were starved for I/O. The system is built around 3-ATA-100 Maxtor 30GB HD's. The motherboard is a VP6 and each HD is on its own controller. Using raid-0 also slowed the compile down. Kent -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen[EMAIL PROTECTED] |\/ | ||/ _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA Cool site http://www.bmwfilms.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: question about wc on for NON-critical workstation (no flamebait)
On 2001.07.24 10:09 j mckitrick wrote: For day to day use (programming, netscape, email, etc) will wc on show any performance improvement? jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | Jonathon McKitrick ~ | | I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself. | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message Try it . . . the answer is yes . . . and like everything else in life (especially entities that are built for speed), it's a calculated risk. jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
