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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: linux's I/O calls faster than NetBSD's ? Message-ID: <CMCuBn.L6G@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <2lhv9r$pbt@homea.ensta.fr> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:40:35 GMT Lines: 14 In article <2lhv9r$pbt@homea.ensta.fr> bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) writes: >We have made some comparaisons between NetBSD 0.9 and Linux, and it >appears that Linux's disk i/o calls are much faster in some case >(time gives 4 seconds versus 4 minutes for a programs which make >direct acces writing and reading on a file, on exactly the same hardware). This seems rather strange. You should post your program so that we can see what is going on. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk "Your monkey has got it right, sir." - HHGTTG