From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 28 3: 5:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9553137B617 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 03:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (ppp180-bsace7001.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.80.180]) by newsguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4SA4FF56064; Mon, 28 May 2001 03:04:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B1222EB.61659B97@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 07:05:31 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel Cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > So add an option to sysinstall called: > > > > "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux" > > I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order > to be as fast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching > enabled in any distribution I'm aware of). ;)) AFAIK, ata write caching is enabled by default by the hardware manufacturers. This was not the case originally, but benchmarks spoke louder. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message