Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:35:22 +1030 | | From | David Newall <> | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2008 23:30, David Newall wrote: > >> Daniel Phillips wrote: >> >>>> Your idea seems predicated on throwing large amounts of RAM at the >>>> problem. What I want to know is this: Is it really 25 times faster than >>>> ext3 with an equally huge buffer cache? >>>> >>> Yes. >>> >> Well, that sounds convincing. Not. You know this how? >> > > By measuring it. time untar -xf linux-2.2.26.tar; time sync >
No numbers. No specifications. And by doing a sync, you explicitly excluded what I was asking, namely a big buffer cache. You've certainly convinced me; you don't know if your idea is worth a brass razoo.
Come back when you've got some hard data.
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