- Does partition size effect appliction startup time?
- Posted by Steve on March 6th, 2004
Do larger partitions result in longer startup times for applications?
If so can noticeable improvements in startup time be achieved with
smaller partitions?
Right now I have a 40 gig hard drive divided into 3 partitions of about
10 gigs each.
Thanks in advance for the info
Steve
- Posted by mjt on March 6th, 2004
Steve wrote:
.... what filesystem(s) are you using? show us how you
have your partitions arranged, as in the output of:
linux:/home/mtobler # fdisk -l /dev/hda
..
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- Posted by Nick Landsberg on March 6th, 2004
Steve wrote:
The answer is a definite MAYBE.
The latency in reading from a disk is dominated
by the seek time between one disk read and the
next. By partitioning your disk you have created
a (good) situation in that, while reading the
application, you are limiting the head
movement (seek time) to roughly one third
of the maximum. This applies to disks
which are fragmented.
If the disk blocks on which the program
resides aren't fragmented, you will not
see any noticeable difference.
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- Posted by John Thompson on March 7th, 2004
On 2004-03-06, Steve <stevesusenet@yahoo.com> wrote:
I don't see why it would, except in the case of programs that are
intentionally meant to scan the whole partition before presenting a user
interface.
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