Re: spreading partitions over multiple drives

From: Geert Hendrickx (geert.hendrickx_at_ua.ac.be)
Date: 09/10/04

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    Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:00:51 +0200
To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>

    On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:21:46PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
    > I would expect a bigger system to cache just about all file access
    > during 'make buildworld'.
    > Even when building things with -j 64 I can not get my dual-opteron 1Gb
    > system get without free pages.
    > And as such most files will only be read once, and object output will be
    > "slowly" synced on the disks.
    > Disk I/O rearly becomes the bottleneck, most of the time I'm missing raw
    > CPU cycles.
    > And I have everything on 1 large 200Gb disk.

    Ok so adding more RAM may be more useful than an extra harddisk? Maybe
    I could even put /tmp or /usr/obj on a RAM-disk? A fully built /usr/obj
    is about 350Mb.

    GH
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