The disk read/write reordering optimization only works if the database file is contiguous on the disk and not fragmented.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Basically, the db file is accessed with seek + read/write operations. > Given a set of such operations, it can be very beneficial to reorder those > operations so that > the file is accessed going from the begining to the end of the file (and not > pure random). > This is a problem mostly for reads (writes are reordered when doing a > combination of async > writes + flush at the end). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com