Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:56:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shouting in a void? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809251449430.244-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19980925153626.A9927@vmunix.com>
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: [...] > It will have 7200rpm Seagate cudas. And unless they've got a few disks > striped (preferably in an array) they will thrash and be "nailed to the wall" > just like freefall. And given the fact that doing a stat() seems to take > forever on Solaris, plus the slower drive, I'd wager on a single disk freefall > would eat it up. :-) The enterprise prolly has as much RAM or more than freefall, so I would assume some of that RAM might be used as a disk cache.. thus caching stat() info. Although in reality, it does preform quite horribly in general with cvsup (could be the precompiled binary), I never thought of the disks as the bottleneck.. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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