Re: [Mldonkey-users] HDD use

[Goswin Brederlow]

Brett Dikeman <address@hidden> writes:

> At 1:53 PM +0100 3/13/03, Ficlu wrote:
> 
> >I am wondering about the use of the disk by the mldonkey client. A friend of
> >mine (a pc sailer) said me that a lot of p2p users crashe their disk because
> >the client makes too many access to the disk.
> 
> This is pure BS- the head motion involved in, say, launching an
> application(especially if the system is low on memory and the drive
> fragmented), is certainly more than the activity generated by a p2p

Fragmentation is what you get by 500 download connects in
parallel. After a while nothing is linear anymore and every read/write
is a seek.

MfG
        Goswin