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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!bsdtest.ensta.fr!bouyer From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: linux's I/O calls faster than NetBSD's ? Date: 10 Mar 1994 12:01:08 GMT Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ln264$16l@homea.ensta.fr> References: <2lhv9r$pbt@homea.ensta.fr> <CMFvuI.IHu@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr In article <CMFvuI.IHu@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU>, frechett@benji.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: |> |> Can't quite get it down to 4 seconds but the effect is quite obvious |> for anyone who has lot of memory. If the linux box had less memory |> I suspect it would perform closer to *BSD's non-MFS numbers. I've run iozone on both NetBSD and linux. With a 6 Mb file, linux is much faster than NetBSD, but whith a 19 Mb file, NetBSD is a little faster than Linux. -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --