Partitioning Question

[Ron Smits]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:19 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not so silly if you realise that I was using the system at the same to
develop and compile and run and re-run servers while recording, that 20%
extra cpu was needed.

It is easy to call something silly when not all info is known.

Ron
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