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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:25:34 -0800
Organization: Lust corrodes my body
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In <4g5ivp$28m@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>3) Sync makes your machine go slower on a bogus-as-hell
> create 1000 files/delete 1000 files benchmark that
> really doesn't mimic normal system usage at all.
Unless, of course, you happen to be running usenet news (about 40,000
files created and deleted per day on my site, and I'm only getting about
40% of the net {alt.*,!alt.binaries&,!alt.pictures&,news.*,comp.*})
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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