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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk fragmentation????
Message-ID: <257@gethen.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 10:50:40 EST
Article-I.D.: gethen.257
Posted: Tue Oct 27 10:50:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 08:09:05 EST
References: <6121@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland
Lines: 21
Keywords: loading many programs at once...

In article <6121@sunybcs.UUCP> ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael (what am I wood???) Reilly) writes:
>     Now, my question is:  could my boot up time be shortened  if
>I  waited  for each process to be loaded and running before I try
>to  load  the  next  one??   The  disk  drive   makes   ALOT   of
>brrrrrt...brrrrrt  noises (good description huh?? :-), like it is
>jumping back and forth between the programs it is  simultaneously
>trying to load.

Unfortunately, it is a lot more efficient to wait until one program has
been completely loaded before trying to load another one.  It would seem
that no attempt has been made to optimize disk accesses when trying to
do simultaneous access to different files; the result, especially with
the gronky floppy file system, is a lot of very slow thrashing.  It
would have been very nice if the Metacomco folk had thought about the
file system, even a little bit :-)

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Michael J. Farren      "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
unisoft!gethen!farren   that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa             Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"