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Re: Problems with Big hfvs



On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:

> Executor is rather paranoid about writing to the disk, so it flushes
> cached information more often than a real Mac does.  Specifically it
> flushes information every time a file is closed.  So lots of little
> files result in lots of flushes.  We may change this in the future.

	Yes, executor really is paranoid about writing to disk. It was
running from my system partition under linux and was making my Hard-disk
scream and scratch like it was dieing. It was _much_ heavier on the hard
disk than _anything_ else I had previously run under Linux. I solved this
by removing any sym links with which executor would work (my
/usr/local/bin/executor and /usr/local/lib/executor were sym links to
files on the installed software partition) and by defragmenting my linux
system partition. Now things run _much_ quieter and I don't have this
feeling anymore I am going to tear out my hard disks everytime I start
executor or a mac app from within executor. This happened on a very
high-end system (all SCSI PC with 3 SCSI chains, 5GB disk, 64MB RAm,
EISA/PCI Dual pentium, high-end Graphics) so I guess it was not because the 
computer could not handle it. 

	Has this kind of things (hard disk running very heavily and 
noisly under executor) happened to someone else? I really like executor 
but this was making me worried..

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