linux-kernel - Re: question about splice performance

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Date:	Sun, 25 May 2008 18:22:50 +0100
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: question about splice performance

<posted & mailed>

Francis Moreau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I did a really basic benchmark and was suprise about the results.
> 
> $ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> $ time  splice-cp  vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux

Are vmlinux and /tmp both RAM filesystems? If not you may want to try
using /dev/shm to rule out disk speed...

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Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

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