numbers don't lie ...

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:

DS> > > > My experiments show that if you have enough memory to host radmdrive for
DS> > > > /usr/src you'd better leave it for caching - there were no statistically
DS> > > > meaningful performance difference, at least on machines with 1G+ RAM.
DS> > > Really?  My measurements show the opposite (on a system with 16GB of
DS> > > RAM).
DS> > My last test on amd64/dualcore with 4G of RAM and -j4 shows
DS> > (buildworld+buildkernel):
DS> >
DS> > ==> /tmp/buildlog <==
DS> >      1996.45 real      3032.94 user       624.83 sys
DS> > Script done on Tue Sep 19 14:44:54 2006
DS> >
DS> > ==> /tmp/buildlog.md <==
DS> >      1957.45 real      3033.93 user       585.78 sys
DS> > Script done on Tue Sep 19 15:20:42 2006
DS> >
DS> > Second one was with 512M/4k/512 swap-backed md, the former with /usr/src on the
DS> > gmirror'ed pair of SATAs.
DS> 
DS> Seems to me that your own numbers contradict you.  You saved about 40
DS> seconds (2%) by keeping /usr/src in a ram disk.

Well, maybe I did used wrong wording (2% is statistically meaningful), but for 
me 2% is not worth all the efforts needed to organize ram disk 
infrastructure...

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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