Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753336AbYCMGaB (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:30:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751584AbYCMG3y (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:29:54 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:59773 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116AbYCMG3x (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:29:53 -0400 Message-ID: <47D8C9E8.6020908@davidnewall.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:00:00 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Phillips CC: Chris Friesen , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803121556.15547.phillips@phunq.net> <47D8BF76.8040105@davidnewall.com> <200803122317.24849.phillips@phunq.net> In-Reply-To: <200803122317.24849.phillips@phunq.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 531 Lines: 14 Daniel Phillips wrote: >> Your idea seems predicated on throwing large amounts of RAM at the >> problem. What I want to know is this: Is it really 25 times faster than >> ext3 with an equally huge buffer cache? >> > > Yes. Well, that sounds convincing. Not. You know this how? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/