On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:33:37 Jill Rowling wrote:
> On my new Athlon 600, ReiserFS screams along.
> Then, the machine is SCSI with 128M RAM (a Cetus tech special :).
> Is it possible that your machine has a small real memory space, so it is
> thrashing?
> Theoretically, any journalling filesystem will have a slightly higher memory
> overhead than a non-journalling FS simply because there are more tables to
> worry about (well, at least in XFS according to the SGI lecture at the Open
> Source conference; can't see that ReiserFS would be that different).
>
> command line vs e: You won't notice command line differences as shell stuff
> gets cached. E is heavy on disk swapping if you have a small memory
> footprint.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jill.
Thanks Jill, You've probably hit the nail on the head. I only have 64Mb in this
machine - 2 X 32Mb EDO.(only two slots) I'll have to get a new MOBO soon and upgrade,
but I like my old case so it will have to be AT not the newer ATX style I guess :-)
Stay well and happy
Heracles
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