On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the > tree-balancing. This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops > anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones) > uses juice.
It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a noticeable amount more electric power. Rebalancing only has to happen when something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at all. Every file system has some CPU overhead for management. Reiserfs doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow. Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast. Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
