From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 15 18:23:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3905837B43F for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3G1NUU72793; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:23:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:23:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200104160123.f3G1NUU72793@earth.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Doug Barton , "'current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost References: <20010416004324.D6F7D3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :It is my understanding that with the new directory layout strategies, this :will be improved somewhat. ie: a single page is much more likely to cache :up to 8 directories. : :Cheers, :-Peter :-- :Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au :"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 Only in the drive's own cache. Our VM Page cache is object-oriented, meaning that even though directories may be packed in the filesystem, they will not be packed in the buffer cache / VM Page cache. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message