[CUBE] Defrag?

[David Iverson]

.....Disk Utility/First Aid.....

In answer to my own question...

Dave Iverson

> From: David Iverson <nebdave at mac.com>
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> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:13:07 -0600
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> Subject: Re: [CUBE] Defrag?
> 
> I have a stock 500 with an upgraded HD and graphics card.  Since I upgraded to
> Panther, I seemd to get a lot of long pauses with the lollipop/beachball that
> I do not recall getting on any of the other OS versions.  I do leave it on
> 24/7, and since it is noted in the questions below, I would be interested to
> know more about problems that doing so might create.  I always thought the
> cube was a good candidate to be a server, which would imply continuous uptime.
> 
> Perhaps there is something else that I am missing; originally, I thought it
> might be Safari causing the problem, but it occurs on other applications on
> and off the internet as well.  Any additional thoughts on this would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Other than that nuisance, the machine has performed well over the last two
> years I have owned it.
> 
> Dave Iverson 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, January 07, 2004, at 09:51AM, Alan Thompson <athomp2 at mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> All filesystems, HFS+, NTFS, FAT, FAT32, UFS, etc.. are subject to
>> fragmentation by their very nature.  The degree to which they are
>> subject to fragmentation varies, however. Both UFS and the latest HFS+
>> have been designed to resist fragmentation but it still happens.
>> 
>> Panther does have two things to combat fragmentation - automatic
>> defragmentation, and "hotfile" clustering.  I would venture to guess
>> that it could be that the you're running out of hard disk space, or
>> have multiple swap files on there taking up lots of room (which could
>> be indicative of insufficient RAM), and have excessive paging going on.
>> 
>> Have your reboot times slowed?  Do you keep your cube on 24x7?
>> 
>> Instead of Norton, I'd recommend Disk Warrior - but I'd look into other
>> things first - % of free disk space, number of pageouts, amount of RAM,
>> etc..
>> 
>> --alan
>> 
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