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To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.x has finally made it!
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
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!  ;)

-Doug
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