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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Neil Brown wrote:
> That is an order of magnitude difference in wall-clock time!  This is
> on my humble notebook with "only" 128Meg of RAM.  The delay is mostly 
> in the consistency checking.  Sure there is a way to turn that off.


Yeah, my laptop w/ 128M is the same.  I think you need at least 256M for 
vaguely usable caching, and preferably 512M or more :)

	Jeff