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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD disk io performance X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pitcairn Message-ID: <DzHGFn.1IH@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cnews@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <86g23ey1uc.fsf@romulus.ihosteng.priv.no> <54700v$npq@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:54:59 GMT Lines: 18 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:33713 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29551 In article <54700v$npq@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes: >>The df command takes about 2-6 seconds to complete >Umm. "df" under Linux is GNU df, and does a "sync" before actually >reading the disk usage numbers. >Oh, there are differences between Linux and other systems, and you may >have hit on something that could be nicer. But posting this as flamebait >is kind of silly, Anyway, Linux is hardly alone in this. We have a news server here running SunOS, and df often takes a minute or more for the same reason. -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"