hammering the drive

[Alex Hornung]

On 21/10/10 04:44, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I clicked on the tabs of a Firefox window I have up, and it responded very 
> slowly.

I can't say much about the wear and tear of the drive. Regarding the
unresponsiveness when Hammmer functions are running I'd suggest you give
dsched_fq a try, the fair-queuing disk scheduling policy. It should
improve interactivity during heavy I/O.

Regards,
Alex Hornung