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Subject: Re: [9fans] SCSI or IDE? 
From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:14:02 +0100
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>>Also, Forsyth found a debugging statement I'd left
>>in the code that was making the free block allocator
>>much slower than it needed to be.  This was about
>>a week ago now.  It speeds things up a fair amount.

removing it changed the time considerably for
an initial load of a fossil system from a mkfs archive.
it went from over 6 hours (until i stopped it),
to about 11 minutes to finish.