From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 30 16: 0:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B994C37B946 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-024.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.24]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18124; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:00:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA57666; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:00:43 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP buildworld times / performance tests Message-ID: <20000330160043.A57508@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200003300604.WAA68031@apollo.backplane.com> <20000330174453.D10480@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000330174453.D10480@futuresouth.com>; from fullermd@futuresouth.com on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:44:53PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:44:53PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > Does softupdates provide faster performance than async/noatime? In general it depends. Softupdates is faster on creating a file and then deleteing it before both hit the disk. Softupdates nulifies out the creation. Async would write the file to disk just to turn around and delete it. For somethings mounting `async' is faster. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message