At 04:26 pm 9/30/95 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>There was some talk about filesystem speed some time ago.
>I ran a benchmark that was posted to the net a while ago to
>see what the difference between async and sync mounting was.
>
>The test creates writes and deletes a number of files with
>different size.
>
>This was the result:
>
>			create	delete
>Type	Size	N	/sec	/sec
>--------------------------------------
>Sync	0k	500	84	2778
>	1k	500	48	90
>	4k	500	45	90
>	10k	500	32	90
>
>Async	0k	500	34	90
>	1k	500	26	35
>	4k	500	26	35
>	10k	500	20	29
>
>I'm not making any conclusions, this is only an observation.
>
>Per
>
>
That's nice, but try it again on a floppy drive!
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