John Heinen said the following on 02/13/2010 09:35 AM:
How do I know when and how to defrag my computer with open suse , or don't I have to worry about it?
Don't worry about it. I'm far from convinced defrag makes sense, even under Windows. Back in the late 80s I wrote a defrag for SCO UNIX. When I profiled it I found that a) the improvements were slight b) buying more memory and hence more buffer and less swap was a better investment c) if your disk is properly partitioned they the "system" part doesn't suffer "churn" Our file systems are a LOT LOT better now. Space allocation strategies are way better. Its my opinion that the milliseconds you _might_ save by having a defraged disk are going to be swamped by the time it takes to defrag the disk. If you're talking about a database, that's an entirely different problem. Most "slow" databases I've seen were the result of poor schema analysis and design and poor index structure. Nothing to do with the disk. -- Quality is free, but only for those who are willing to pay heavily for it. - Tom Demarco, "Peopleware" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org