Is it normal that XP's defrag programm will take hours and do only a small part of the job?

Is it normal that XP's defrag programm will take hours and do only a small part of the job? When running XP's default defrag program on my Acer laptop, it takes maybe 3 hours before it stops, and then the job is never done: it is clear from the programs graph that a lot remains to be done (and I can keep running it times and times, and it never gets the job properly done).
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"Maybe you are looking for a powerful disk defragmenter , this superuser talk is about the best ones.

Currently I'm using OO Defrag, perhaps
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I'm looking for a free/open source
alternatives with at least powerful
defrag algorithms."