Re: [Sks-devel] 1.0.5 released

[Dan Egli]

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Yaron M. Minsky wrote:

| On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 13:42, Peter Palfrader wrote:
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|>I have no idea what is slowing it down that badly, but there is plenty
|>of CPU left, plenty of RAM left and the swap used stays very much
|>constant (i.e. not trashing) and I don't think that my disks are _that_
|>slow.
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| You're disks aren't slow, but my algorithm is.
|
| I make no attempt to optimize the update algorithm for the fact that if
| you used fastbuild, your keys are distributed more or less randomly
| around the disk.  That means you do a LOT of seeking, and seeking is
| slow.
|


If you use fastbuild?? How can you NOT use fastbuild? I did some
experimentation in a separate dir once. I tried to do sks build vs sks
fastbuild. It complained that dump was a directory. Well of COURSE it's
a directory :>

- --- Dan
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