Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:53:15 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Mutsaers <peter@mutsaers.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> Subject: Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ? Message-ID: <XFMail.991028105315.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <87n1t4r4h8.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl>
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On 27-Oct-99 Peter Mutsaers wrote: > The only exception might be untarring large tarballs. Linux makes more > aggressive use of the filesystem buffer; it even swaps out quite > active processes to be able to cache large amounts. The drawback is > that the system as a whole tends to become quite sluggish, while BSD > has a better balance between keeping active processes and > filesystem-cache. Is there anyway to tune this behaviour under FreeBSD? I know the argument is that 'FreeBSD is self tuning' but some of us are unable to resist fiddling =) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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