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I think it is slow because of disk latency. To actually seek to find all these gazillion small configuration files. Just look at how boot up becomes much snappi
by noss 17y ago
I think it is slow because of disk latency. To actually seek to find all these gazillion small configuration files. Just look at how boot up becomes much snappier when an SSD is used.
- anamax 17y ago> I think it is slow because of disk latency. And you even provided some supporting evidence. I don't think that it's conclusive, but until I'm willing to do the work.... > To actually seek to find all these gazillion small configuration files. If that's the actual bottleneck, perhaps a different configuration system would be a better solution.
- gaius 17y agoLike... The Registry? ;-)
- noss 17y agoI do not see that happening. It is actually a good thing that each application can have their own isolated configuration that is tailored for the application's needs. It is that most file systems are optimized for large files. Reiser FS promised to be a killer FS, handling small files and arbitrary file-meta-data, but well... <insert un-tasteful joke here>.