jdow wrote:
From: "Mike McCarty" <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The fragmentation for your emacs is unbelievably high. I did not find
anything yet fragmented in the hundreds, let alone several hundred
extents. Are you using LVM? My system is setup in traditional
partitions. LVM usage "seemed" slower in responsiveness, so I assumed
it was more in fragments
Why "unvelievably"? Do you mean that you do not believe what my
system says? Or that you do not believe my e-mail? Or that you
find that it stretches your imagination? Or what?
Perhaps this is an Americanism. It is higher than one would believe
Well, though my first language is not English, it is my preferred
language, which I've been speaking since I was about 4 or so.
And I was born in and grew up in the USA. Native Texican.
in a "fantasy story" but perforce must believe when seen in real life.
This is what I meant by "stretches your imagination".
It does seem rather ridiculously or unbelievably or unrealistically or
fish story high. But you have the numbers right in front of you.
So unbelievable or not it can happen. It certainly is fascinating
that it has.
I was, well, shocked. OTOH, someone stated that extents and
fragmentation are not the same, as different extents may
well be contiguous on disc.
How full is that file system?
{^_^}
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 7633264 4681896 2563620 65% /
/dev/hda3 99075 24602 69358 27% /boot
none 124044 0 124044 0% /dev/shm
Hmm, anyone can explain what /dev/shm is? And why it's 62MB?
This is a dual-boot WinXP/Linux.
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 8625 4346968+ b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 * 8626 60915 26354160 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 60916 61118 102312 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4 61119 77545 8279208 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 61119 76505 7755016+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 76506 77545 524128+ 82 Linux swap
Mike
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