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0 pointsalbertzeyer14y ago0 comments

When the logs are read once, they should stay in the VFS cache as long as there is enough RAM, shouldn't they?

Anyway, instead of running /usr/bin/login, I just use /bin/zsh as my Terminal.app startup command which is much faster.

However, every time I access the file system, even some tab for autocompletion, it takes a few seconds. Even cd'ing into some directory can sometimes take a few seconds. Sometimes ~= it's more than 1h ago that I accessed that dir or so.

Edit: Maybe it's Time Machine or Spotlight or so which destroys the effectiveness of the VFS cache?

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nirvana14y ago· 1 in thread

Changing directory is instant for me. (no SSD here, all spinning rust.) Tab completion is instant too. Run Time Machine every hour, never made a change to the spotlight config.

spooneybarger14y ago

anything that hits the disk heavily, including time machine, kills my snow leopard machine. lack of ui responsiveness, beachballs et al.

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