Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > More likely RAM bandwidth. Those 133 Mhz FSBs ought to help, though.
> If RAM bandwidth was the bottleneck here then putting /usr/src and
> /usr/obj into an MFS would have represented a pessimization over
> simply leaving that on disk.
Don't be so sure. Stuff on disk has to be read into memory, and this
is generally done by DMAing it off the disk, which locks the memroy
bus, then copying it out into userland. With an MFS you skip the first
part, unless MFS is stupider than I thought.
DES
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