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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: filesystem safety and SCSI disk write caching
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>> Yes, the default configuration may be much slower than mine.
>
>I can definitely back your basic point ('make world' is CPU bound) up.  
>On a 4-way Xeon system with slow disks we were still able to get down 
>around 40 minutes.

Er, that shows that it is i/o bound on systems with so much CPU.  I
got it down to 75 minutes on 1-way K6-233 with 1 IDE disk before it
was bloated by perl5 and transition to elf.

Bruce

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