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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:50:55 -0800 From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...nq.net> To: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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