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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ???
Date: 23 Aug 1994 05:18:26 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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In-reply-to: mhw@cs.brown.edu's message of Mon, 15 Aug 1994 17:59:32 GMT

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Weaver <mhw@cs.brown.edu> writes:
In article <1994Aug15.175932.10899@cs.brown.edu> mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) writes:

    Mark> I'm aware of the synchronous writes issue, but again, my
    Mark> /tmp is a ramdisk, and gcc is using /tmp for it's temporary
    Mark> files (I checked), and it should only be writing one file
    Mark> per source file, so I shouldn't be getting NEARLY that much
    Mark> disk chattering.

Since we are talking gcc, have you guys ever used the "-pipe" command
line option.  Sounds like you should check it out.

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Brett Lymn