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Received: from von-neumann.info.polymtl.ca (von-neumann.info.polymtl.ca [132.207.12.130]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA22548 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 17:56:46 -0800 Received: by von-neumann.info.polymtl.ca id AA25569 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for executor@nacm.com); Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:56:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:56:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Vincent Cojot (Gosseyn SandPath)" <coyote@info.polymtl.ca> X-Sender: coyote@von-neumann To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com> Cc: James Scott <jes23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Problems with Big hfvs In-Reply-To: <m0tJ61v-000277C@beaut.ardi.com> Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951124204329.24024A-100000@von-neumann> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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.. ,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-, Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering. STEP administrator. Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Comite Micro-Informatique. coyote@step.polymtl.ca, coyote@info.polymtl.ca They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars where no human race is I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. - Robert Frost