Partitioning Question

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 10/16/06, Ron Smits <ron at ronsmits.org> wrote:
>
> I can only give you rough observations. I regularly record tv from a
> tvcard. Using the same settings on an lvm disk the cpu will run towards
> 80% usage, on the same disktype but not in an lvm setup and the same
> filesystem type it goes to 60-65%. As I said this is rough ballpark. It
> was however enough to make me switch off lvm.

That's honestly a really silly reason to move off of LVM.  You realize
that it wasn't slowing anything down, right?  Your CPU was still
sitting around with nothing to do 20% of the time.  Wether it's 35-40%
of the time or 20% of the time, if your CPU is idle, then the machine
isn't heavily loaded.

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Chris

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