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Oh im so sad :(
Calum:
i know a guy in melbourne who actually uses msn messenger while burning, however he tells me he has to switch off the sound in msn mess. or else it corrupts the burn.
personally i find that just opening 'My Computer' off the desktop fucks up a CD burn in windows, let alone attempting to start some app.
choasforages:
ummm, loading times anyone?, thats the advantage of xfs. my 400mhz system was pretty better with xfs, poor with ext2, and acceptlble with reiserfs. things loadfaster, and the smaller files, think about libary files, most are small, and need to be loaded at the start time of an application. so it does make things a bit quicker./*void main, be sure to correct this if im wrong*/
voidmain:
Well since you have xfs support and I assume you also have ext3 support do you have enough disk space to do two side-by-side installs and do some performance comparisons? I would be interested in a semi-scientific study that would test normal user operations and compare results. I'm willing to bet you will find there is not much of a difference but I would certianly humbly accept it if I were wrong.
Then also perform some tests where large numbers of small files are copied, and smaller numbers of large files. And of course we could think up a much larger list of things to perform. I don't believe the shared library load times should have much of an effect as once they are loaded, any other programs that need them use them from memory and do not have to load them again from disk..
Hey, we got the FAQ section going, maybe we need to start an MES Benchmarking site.
In the mean time I am searching for such benchmark comparisons on the google as we speak..
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Here looks like the kind of comparison I'm looking for:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue68/dellomodarme.html
But this comparison appears to be quite old. Looks like they were using kernel version 2.2.x and ext3 was still in alpha (which is why they didn't recommend it). But the performance I thought looked pretty good for ext3. I also saw that disk benchmark checks are pretty much meaningless for several reasons. e.g. a cleanly formated file system of a specific type might perform very well but it also may be more prone to fragmentation where it would perform very bad, among many other reasons.
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[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
choasforages:
i can almost do a near scientific statment on reiserfs if you would except a default redhat kernel, versus the one i made from the a vanilla 2.4.18 and the gentoo patchs, but i just don't have the resourses to benchmark xfs, but i did use it, and it was pretty quick for running wine. but that was the redhat 7.2 version of the installer and a few things were broken. though i do have to say that reiserfs is quite impressive also. and it probably would be a very small different if any on xfs, but i do mes with 3-5 meg mp3's, which in my book, are small files/*compared to the divx files i have that don't even fit on cdr*/. now the sweet thing, is that xfs is included in 2.5.36 or so i have heard
lazygamer:
So in other words, fuck XFS, just put some resierFS on and use my RH disks.
I just hope the system configuration utilities aren't like their packages list. One thing I can't figure out, how is it that both Mandrake and RH have 3 CD's, yet RH has a vastly greater amount of stuff to choose from?
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