At 8:05 AM -0700 1999/9/17, Thomas Dean wrote:
> These tests with softupdates do not appear to be a test of the disk
> i/o system, but, a test of memory.
>
> Are the files deleted before they are actually written to disk?
Good question. I don't know the answer. I know that the process
is to create all the files first, then operate on them (including
deletions and more creations), and then finally do a removal of all
of them as quickly as possible at the end of the test.
I'd be willing to guess a lot of files do get created and then
deleted before the data ever gets written to disk. After all,
postmark was written to simulate the kind of a load that a
heavily-used mail system places on the machine, and that's precisely
the sort of environment where something like softupdates or mounting
filesystems async does tend to help the most.
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