[CUBE] Defrag?

[David Iverson]

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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