Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 22:34:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <200105242235.PAA13693@usr02.primenet.com>
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] > 1. I don't think I've ever seen a Linux distro which has write ] > caching enabled by default. Hell, DMA33 isn't even enabled ] > by default ;) ] ] You are talking about controlling the IDE drive cache. ] ] The issue here is write cache in the filesystem code. No. The issue here is the write cache on the drive. FreeBSD with soft updates will operate within 4% of the top memory bandwidth; see the Ganger/Patt paper on the technology. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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