Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752773AbYCMGvR (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:51:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751485AbYCMGvH (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:51:07 -0400 Received: from phunq.net ([64.81.85.152]:41127 "EHLO moonbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751480AbYCMGvH (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:51:07 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: David Newall Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:50:55 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Chris Friesen , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803122317.24849.phillips@phunq.net> <47D8C9E8.6020908@davidnewall.com> In-Reply-To: <47D8C9E8.6020908@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803122350.56811.phillips@phunq.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 663 Lines: 18 On Wednesday 12 March 2008 23:30, David Newall wrote: > 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? By measuring it. time untar -xf linux-2.2.26.tar; time sync Daniel -- 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/