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Red Squirrel - Mar-06-2003 server time

I don't know why it does that. It does it to Windstalker too. It usually keeps me loged in (I do close the site sometimes ). I'll have to look into it, I think it has to do with the time it stays logged in. There's no setting anywhere though, that I know of.

Red Squirrel - Mar-06-2003 server time

Yeah mine does since my firewall has a bug in it that makes it start spitting messages boxes until it drains all the memory, if I run the defrag. I could run without a firewall.... But I will give diskkeeper a try next time, I heard of it a few days ago only. Knew of fit before but never knew it was free.

Red Squirrel - Mar-05-2003 server time

QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 4 2003, 10:43 PM) QUOTE (Red Squirrel @ Mar 4 2003, 03:34 AM) QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 06:40 PM) QUOTE (rovingcowboy @ Mar 3 2003, 02:29 PM) QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 07:09 AM) the journaling and rewriting processes should keep everything contiguous and organized on the hard drive. that is called on the fly defragmenting. it is doing the same job only while it is in use. exactly. so the user doesn't have to go through the pain of doing it him or herself. Yep no pain and no downtime! But does that make it slower though? That's what I wonder. Only during the writing processing. You may notice that you're just sitting there, minding your own business, just surfing the web maybe and all of a sudden you notice a lot of disk activity. This happens about a few times a day, and during that time of course, the machine is only a little slower. But it's usually pretty quick and benficial. No worries if you have a bad shutdown either, it's very unlikely for there to be anything wrong with the file system because of its journaling techniques. Linux really sounds like fun... I just need a deticated box that I can put what I want on it!

Magic - Mar-05-2003 server time

QUOTE (Red Squirrel @ Mar 4 2003, 03:34 AM) QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 06:40 PM) QUOTE (rovingcowboy @ Mar 3 2003, 02:29 PM) QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 07:09 AM) the journaling and rewriting processes should keep everything contiguous and organized on the hard drive. that is called on the fly defragmenting. it is doing the same job only while it is in use. exactly. so the user doesn't have to go through the pain of doing it him or herself. Yep no pain and no downtime! But does that make it slower though? That's what I wonder. Only during the writing processing. You may notice that you're just sitting there, minding your own business, just surfing the web maybe and all of a sudden you notice a lot of disk activity. This happens about a few times a day, and during that time of course, the machine is only a little slower. But it's usually pretty quick and benficial. No worries if you have a bad shutdown either, it's very unlikely for there to be anything wrong with the file system because of its journaling techniques.

Red Squirrel - Mar-03-2003 server time

QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 06:40 PM) QUOTE (rovingcowboy @ Mar 3 2003, 02:29 PM) QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 07:09 AM) the journaling and rewriting processes should keep everything contiguous and organized on the hard drive. that is called on the fly defragmenting. it is doing the same job only while it is in use. exactly. so the user doesn't have to go through the pain of doing it him or herself. Yep no pain and no downtime! But does that make it slower though? That's what I wonder.

Magic - Mar-03-2003 server time

QUOTE (rovingcowboy @ Mar 3 2003, 02:29 PM) QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 07:09 AM) the journaling and rewriting processes should keep everything contiguous and organized on the hard drive. that is called on the fly defragmenting. it is doing the same job only while it is in use. exactly. so the user doesn't have to go through the pain of doing it him or herself.

rovingcowboy - Mar-03-2003 server time

QUOTE (Magic @ Mar 3 2003, 07:09 AM) the journaling and rewriting processes should keep everything contiguous and organized on the hard drive. that is called on the fly defragmenting. it is doing the same job only while it is in use.

Red Squirrel - Mar-02-2003 server time

Eventually I'd like to have a setup like that as well. But I heard Linux does not require defrag, not sure how it works, but that's what I heard.

rovingcowboy - Mar-02-2003 server time

they all require defragmenting. red. only way to not go offline when doing it is to hook up dual servers when one is busy then the other one takes over. like in raid systems you mirror the forum on both servers so any one visiter that is on the site will be on the same site. with out seening any difference in the site. it will just be an invisable switch over when the one server is doing maint. that is how the big boys do it. they even have hot swapable servers with raid systems in them so if a drive goes bad they just yank it out, and there is an automatic switch to the back up one then they put in the new drive. it then becomes the back up drive and copies all the information from the other drive. so when it is time to replace that drive it then has the invisable switch back to the other drive again. and so, on and so, on doing it that way stops a lot of this

Red Squirrel - Mar-01-2003 server time

I did the defrag today and it took way longer then I figured. We're now back online! I can't wait to get a new box!!! Soon enough I hope! Linux does not require defragmenting.