Subject: Re: about untar performance on -current
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/12/2001 08:36:08
Quoting Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:03:23AM -0300, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> > Do you think you could try the ffs_dirpref() patch I posted here
> yesterday with 
> > this and post numbers for that (with your patch) as well?
> 
> Funny you should mention that.. I just ran a simple test. I extracted
> gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz (12M file) on the P5-200, 64M, with:
[ snip ]
> Only the 'rm -rf' time is still worse:
> 
> 1.5:			0.060u 0.435s 0:07.25 6.7%      0+0k 209+489io 19pf+0w
> 1.5T:			0.038u 0.661s 0:15.06 4.5%      0+0k 59+1107io 8pf+0w
> 1.5T+enami+dirpref:	0.094u 0.637s 0:11.72 6.1%      0+0k 32+1313io
> 8pf+0w

Could you try it with a larger file (pkgsrc.tar.gz for example) as well?

Jared

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Computer Programming Technology
New Brunswick Community College, Saint John