[Catalyst] Slow Makefile.PL

[Wade Stuart]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Ovid <publiustemp-catalyst at yahoo.com>wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Ovid <publiustemp-catalyst at yahoo.com>
>
>
> > Yeah, I'm
> > using FileVault.  I've had a couple of issues with it already. I think
> it's
> > time for me to rethink things.
>
>
> I've moved my project outside of the FileVault protected directory and the
> Makefile.PL is almost twice as fast now.
>
>
Beyond filevalt, macbook(pro)s also have a pretty bad track record of
trashing drives (after the intel changeover mac sleep writes RAM to disk
before the drive spins down -- and before many users put their laptops in
bags and start walking).   This trashed drive can present as random long io
blocking for weeks or months before the drive fails.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=3D960977&start=3D0&tstart=
=3D0 is
an old thread about the issue.
http://www.macworld.com/article/53471/2006/10/sleepmode.html is the fix I
run my macs with -- one caveat is that if the computer runs completely out
of battery it in effect does a hard boot.  The other option is to wait (up
to 2 minutes) for RAM to write to disk and the sleep light to slow blink
before moving your lappy;  I am just too impatient.



-Wade
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