From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 13:11:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whispers.blackmist.org (adsl-216-103-50-27.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [216.103.50.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6288C14C27 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:11:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbarbee@singular.com) Received: (qmail 568 invoked from network); 25 Sep 1999 20:16:01 -0000 Received: from tesseract.internal.blackmist.org (HELO dew) (192.168.0.27) by whispers.internal.blackmist.org with SMTP; 25 Sep 1999 20:16:01 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990925130141.00d75370@server0.singular.com> X-Sender: jbarbee@server0.singular.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 (demo) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:11:21 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: john Subject: performance increase with MSF? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG server# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on .... procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc mfs:337 7903 7234 37 99% /usr/local/www/global/tmp testfile is a 7 meg file created from a couple of tar files. the 7234K used are taken up by testfile. there are no other files in the mfs filesystem. server# /usr/bin/time grep blah testfile ...grep output... 0.11 real 0.06 user 0.05 sys server# /usr/bin/time grep blah /usr/local/www/global/tmp/testfile ...grep output... 0.11 real 0.06 user 0.05 sys Is my method of testing invalid? Is 7 megs too small to make a difference? Did I miss something when I read the docs? john. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message