Subject: Re: File system performance on i386
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-perform
Date: 02/25/2001 16:08:49
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:42:54PM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:39:31PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > You should try to compile your software using linux binaries and includes
> > under a NetBSD (for example, copies a linux install in /emul/linux,
> > 'chroot /emul/linux /bin/csh' and build your software).
> 
> ...but keep in mind that this will mean extra overhead for system calls,
> for example each filename lookup might result in 2 ones because of
> the shadow tree handling.

Yes, but most of this should be handled by the buffer cache, so this shouldn't
make such a big difference.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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