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Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop

Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop

Posted Jul 2, 2008 2:52 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop by k8to
Parent article: Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop

Obviously you've never used tracker ;)


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Ext4 hacker Ted Ts'o converts his laptop

Posted Jul 3, 2008 22:36 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

Under regular load, 90 % of the IO done by tracker is reading. When tracker hangs and keeps
rereading the same file over and over, 100 % of the io is reading. SSDs can handle it just
fine.

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