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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:54:52 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Matthew Dillon's patch to VMIO directories
Message-ID:  <E10aNgZ-0002kq-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <371F30F5.2B56818F@pobox.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990421210321.3210B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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Niall Smart <niall@pobox.com> wrote:
>> The first time I run find command, the time elapsed is 30 seconds,
>> comparable to the kernel without patch.  The second time I run find
>> command, the time elapsed is only 2 seconds.  And if I interprete the
>> output of time correctly, the first time we did 2284 I/O read, 0 I/O
>> write.  The second time we did 0 I/O read, 259 I/O write.
>
>Would it be correct to attribute the writes due to paging
>caused by the memory used to cache directory entries, or
>is this more likely to be noise?

atime? but why didn't that happen during the first run?

Tony.
-- 
f.a.n.finch   dot@dotat.at   fanf@demon.net
Arthur: "Oh, that sounds better, have you worked out the controls?"
Ford:   "No, we just stopped playing with them."


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