Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:17:48 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates... Message-ID: <38AEFA6C.58CE6857@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002181507120.1712-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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Tom wrote: > > > Softupdates reduces the number of writes needed. It can coalesce writes > > to the same block. > > Async updates are always as fast as softupdates, if not faster. You > should read the softupdates docs. I read the docs and the paper. It has been empirically shown that this is not the case. 'nuff said. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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