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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD1.1.5???
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 07:23:22 GMT
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John Dyson (dysonj@delphi.com) wrote:
: The FreeBSD-1.1.5 release will contain a new kernel ( I think that it
: is an entire release.) The new kernel will contain all of the VM
: enhancements that we talked about a long time ago (1.1 as you know was
: held up, and many (most) of the VM changes did not make it.) The
: paging algorithms are vastly improved and lots of things are faster
: (VM wise.) Our -current has had file clustering for a long time now, and
: it works pretty good (you really get most of your disk performance now, esp
: on writes.)
I ran the iozone tests and got about 1.2 Meg/s (with peaks much
higher) on my 1542 with a Maxtor 540SL. The writes were 660k/sec or
so. I thought it was the disk (altho it seemed a bit odd to me.) Are
you saying that 1.1.5 will speed this up? (that's cool)
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