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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE twice as slow as Linux
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:15:27PM +0000, John Fremlin wrote:
> > I shall try again with the old .config and ext2fs mounted
> > async,noatime.
> 
> This is a silly test IMNSHO, but if you really want to it you should
> also try compiling it on a UFS file system with softupdates.

Especially since ext2fs can't be mounted async (the default gives a
half-baked version of async with the most important syncs turned off).

Bruce


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