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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:56:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>
Cc:        current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: shouting in a void?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809251449430.244-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980925153626.A9927@vmunix.com>

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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mark Mayo wrote:
[...]
> It will have 7200rpm Seagate cudas. And unless they've got a few disks
> striped (preferably in an array) they will thrash and be "nailed to the wall"
> just like freefall. And given the fact that doing a stat() seems to take
> forever on Solaris, plus the slower drive, I'd wager on a single disk freefall
> would eat it up.  :-)

The enterprise prolly has as much RAM or more than freefall, so I would
assume some of that RAM might be used as a disk cache.. thus caching
stat() info. Although in reality, it does preform quite horribly in
general with cvsup (could be the precompiled binary), I never thought of 
the disks as the bottleneck..

- alex

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