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- (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>
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- To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>
- Cc: James Scott <jes23@hermes.cam.ac.uk>, executor@nacm.com
- Subject: Re: Problems with Big hfvs
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- On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
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- > 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering. STEP administrator.
- Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Comite Micro-Informatique.
- coyote@step.polymtl.ca, coyote@info.polymtl.ca
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- 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
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