whups sorry Dennis - my bad sentence structure. I never feel the need to defrag with Puppy, I use ext4 and ext3 formatted partitions with ext3 fs myself... I meant that "when in Windoze - defrag, defrag, defrag..." a habit I mistakenly transferred to my FreeDos install - and perhaps running DOSFSCK on my FAT32 sd-card will might make a difference. I was getting unusual behaviours that was otherwise not detected in tests I used from UBCD. Sorry to read of your browser woes - when my Firefox gets sluggish I switch to qupzilla (webkit Qt-based) in my Puppy installs - puts the fun right back into surfing. Cheers
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013, at 04:47 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Robins <arob...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > > Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo - > > defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disgruntled MS > > user, I never consider it in my (user-level) Puppy Linux. I'll give > > DOSFSCK a run, as I still query the format process on the SD-card. > > I don't believe you *can* do it in Puppy, though a variable will be > the file system you install on. I have Puppy here on an old notebook > along with Ubuntu. I installed both on Ext4 filesystems, which add > the ability to use extents, and in my rough tests offered about a > 25%-33% I/O boost. The notebook does UDMA 4 at best (BIOS > limitation), and the main constraint is slow disk I/O. Puppy and > bundled apps, chosen for small size, run well enough. Larger apps are > problems. I don't even try to run a current Firefox on it. It takes > 45 seconds just to load, and is perceptibly sluggish when up. To the > extent that I browse from it (seldom), I use Opera or Midori. Puppy > and Ubuntu mount each other's slices on boot, and I did some fiddling > to share apps between them, with one copy of large things living on > one side or the other but accessable from both. > > While Ext file systems are fairly fragmentation resistant, they *do* > become fragmented, and being able to defrag is a design goal of Ext4. > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
