Re: htsearch very slow on Mac Mini - why?
Christopher Murtagh <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 06:28 -0700, Janine Sisk wrote: > On Jul 13, 2005, at 5:10 AM, Christopher Murtagh wrote: > > > This isn't surprising at all. The Mac Mini's are well known to have > > very slow hard drives, and for the most part searches are I/O bound. > > Your old Dell's RAID array will blow the pants of the Mac Mini's > > drive. > > Hmm. Bummer. Is there anything I can do to improve the situation? > Can htdig be told to keep it's data in RAM or something? Simplest way is to use an external Firewire drive. I haven't had much need for ieee1394 under Linux, but I think it's pretty stable now. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[email protected]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general