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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2007 00:37:12 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>
Cc:        Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600
Message-ID:  <20070508043712.GA62947@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <28edec3c0705072045s18a2cb53ia4f66030e4e3fb22@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:45:12AM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote:

> that or, does mfs speeding things up really work?  remains to be
> seen ...

Of course it does...even the fastest disk hardware on the market
(well, as of a year ago) is several times slower than memory writing,
and commodity disk hardware is orders of magnitude slower.  Yes, I
have the measurements to prove this:

  http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Filesystem%20Performance.pdf

Kris



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