Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4.x has finally made it! | From | Doug McNaught <> | Date | 13 Nov 2001 11:30:02 -0500 |
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Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Alastair Stevens wrote: > > > For those who haven't seen it yet, Moshe Bar at BYTE.com has revisited his > > Linux 2.4 vs FreeBSD benchmarks, using 2.4.12 in this case: > > > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html > > Wow. That person is knowledgeable... NOT. Turning off fsync() for mail > is just as good as piping it to /dev/null. See RFC-1123.
Umm... He specifically stated that it was a Very Bad Idea for production systems. He simply wanted to measure general throughput rather than disk latency (which is a bottleneck with fsync() enabled).
It's a benchmark, lighten up! ;)
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