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Better loading with SymLinks
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Aphoxema G
Khushakor Clan
#1 - 2012-04-23 02:54:07 UTC
I'm too lazy to build a RAID, so instead I just symlinked some of the .stuff files from an NTFS directory on another hard drive. Didn't really have a good way to judge how to balance the files, so I just sorted by size and moved every other file to the other volume.

This significantly improved with loading assets, particularly with previewing full-body avatars and loading the character creation which previously I could compete against with compiling a kernel or plotting a CAD document. I mean, people still do those things, right?

Now it works just fine and the client hasn't given me any trouble, but does anyone know a better way to go about this? See any problems that might come up using this method?
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#2 - 2012-04-24 17:57:36 UTC
Aphoxema G wrote:
I'm too lazy to build a RAID, so instead I just symlinked some of the .stuff files from an NTFS directory on another hard drive. Didn't really have a good way to judge how to balance the files, so I just sorted by size and moved every other file to the other volume.

This significantly improved with loading assets, particularly with previewing full-body avatars and loading the character creation which previously I could compete against with compiling a kernel or plotting a CAD document. I mean, people still do those things, right?

Now it works just fine and the client hasn't given me any trouble, but does anyone know a better way to go about this? See any problems that might come up using this method?



Or just use a chunk of memory :) or get hybrid / SSD drive.

Hardware is cheap, throw more hardware at it :)
Aphoxema G
Khushakor Clan
#3 - 2012-04-24 18:10:24 UTC
Miilla wrote:
Or just use a chunk of memory :) or get hybrid / SSD drive.

Hardware is cheap, throw more hardware at it :)


Well, it is cheap, but then I have to pay for it. I am pretty jealous of Zukes being able to undock in Rens without this happening...

http://teraamatar.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13100310

And then after receiving the clone activation mail, then the Rens station model loads, and another 10 seconds later I appear in Arzad. I really am to the point where I'm willing to drop a couple hundred on the ability to be able to at least witness my own death.
Dragonaire
Here there be Dragons
#4 - 2012-04-25 04:23:12 UTC
Yeah really takes the fun out of dying when you don't even get to see it happen Blink

Finds camping stations from the inside much easier. Designer of Yapeal for the Eve API. Check out the Yapeal PHP API Library thread.