System slowdown on large disk writes

[Neil Watson]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:17:50PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:12:47AM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
>I'm copying 500Mb to 4Gb files to another location on the same ext3
>(I think - how would I check?) 140-odd Gb partition.

'mount' will tell you about your mounted file systems.  It has been my
experience that ext3 does not perform well on large partitions.  I think
that XFS may be a better choice.  Perhaps you can test and compare.

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