Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: suprising fast 'find /' (2.2.0-pre9) | Date | 22 Jan 1999 05:51:55 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9901211856370.1015-100000@sjoerd.sjoerdnet> By author: Arjan Filius <arjan@xs4all.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hello, > > If i remeber correctly, a while ago somebody was comparing bsd and Linux > find (different machines), and Linux/other_machine was not the fastest > > I just tried: > z(tty1) 6:57pm 0 root@sjoerd:~ # time find / > /dev/null > 0.780u 1.160s 0:02.10 92.3% 0+0k 0+0io 65pf+0w > > on a system: > (tty1) 7:00pm 0 root@sjoerd:~ # df -m > Filesystem MB-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/hdb9 935 778 109 88% / > /dev/hda2 499 264 235 53% /dos/w95 > /dev/hda5 884 770 69 92% /home > /dev/hdb5 349 327 2 99% /usr/src > /dev/hdb6 87 80 6 93% /root > /dev/hdb2 43 40 0 100% /boot > /dev/hdb7 261 227 31 88% /usr/lib > /dev/hdb8 87 57 29 66% /usr/local > /dev/hdc1 290 5 270 2% /hdd/1 > /dev/hdc2 5552 4755 509 90% /hdd/2 > (AMDK6-2/300,256MB) > > And i was plesant surprized! :)) > > Don't know about previous kernels, but it's certenly faster what was > reported some time ago :) > > Happy 2.2.0! >
The dcache *really* speeds up operations on directory trees, like "find". Enjoy :)
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