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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 20 Feb 1996 22:23:52 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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toehser@cais.cais.com (Tom Oehser) wrote:
]
] >>3) Sync makes your machine go slower on a bogus-as-hell
] >> create 1000 files/delete 1000 files benchmark that
] >> really doesn't mimic normal system usage at all.
]
] Uh.... in normal use, *my* system creates/deletes thousands of files,
] just in the process of compiling new kernels, copying trees of files,
] making backups, using news and www; I really don't know what you are
] talking about, maybe a diskless workstation? -Tom
The news creates/deletes are not short-time-window occurances.
The compilation is, but /tmp directories contain transient data
and may be universally recreated in case of failure, so compiling
will use an async FS or a ramdisk, anyway. If it doesn't use
pipes instead.
I refer you to Figure 5(c) of the Ganger/Patt paper previously
referenced.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.