mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

Mars G. Miro marsgmiro at gmail.com
Tue May 8 06:04:58 UTC 2007


On 5/8/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:45:12AM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote:
>
> > that or, does mfs speeding things up really work?  remains to be
> > seen ...
>
> Of course it does...even the fastest disk hardware on the market
> (well, as of a year ago) is several times slower than memory writing,
> and commodity disk hardware is orders of magnitude slower.  Yes, I
> have the measurements to prove this:
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Filesystem%20Performance.pdf
>

That was the paper I was referring to in my 1st email.

Do you still have your scripts that you could prolly make publicly available?

As some of you might have noticed already, I have a plethora of exotic
machines and hardware on my hands that i could test FreeBSD on ;-)

> Kris
>


cheers
mars


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