On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:38:12PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> - I ran bonnie++ on a partition with soft-updates and got 730 files/sec 
> create score. This is abysmally small compared to FreeBSD 4.9 (almost 17000 
> files/sec). Is that normal? (is this related to FreeBSD's dirhash?) Some 

BTW, you could monitor disk usage with 'systat vm'.
I suspect FreeBSD has more agressive caching of metadata, and so hit the disk
less often.
You can bump the buffer cache parameters in your kernel config file.
Current should also be much better at this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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