Re: removing an ext2fs file forces disk activity

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

> Right, it would improve the speed significantly, but it wouldn't get
> rid of the "harddisk is thrashing hard all the time while I'm
> compiling, even if I have plenty of RAM and all the source files are
> cached"-behaviour.

I have found that compiling is a disk-bound activity since about
1988, on every system I've used...When I build a Linux kernel, the
disk is continuously bumping along.