Comment 34 for bug 229745
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| Alexander Sack (asac) wrote Re: [Bug 229745] Re: after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd) | #34 |
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:15:00AM -0000, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
> Alexander Sack wrote:
> > in anycase, if you still have an issue in jaunty you could also
> > test ext4 filesystem which should help to make the filesystem access
> > done by firefox less IO hungry.
>
> Thanks for that hint. I need clarification on the ext4 filesystem:
>
> 1. Will it be an option in jaunty?
Yes, from what i can recall its available as an option in the jaunty
installer. However, its still not 100% finished (which is reflected by
the fact that its still not the default for us).
>
> 2. Is it enough for the root partition / to be ext4 or should the /home
> partition also be ext4?
The write operation happens on your /home partition, so migrating that
to ext4 should help. However, remember that with ext4 keeping regular
backups is even more important.
- Alexander