> I wonder how sshfs compared to nfs. (I've modified your benchmark to also test the case where data isn't in the page cache).
Local ext3: cached: os.walk took 0.096s, scandir.walk took 0.030s -- 3.2x as fast uncached: os.walk took 0.320s, scandir.walk took 0.130s -- 2.5x as fast NFSv3, 1Gb/s network: cached: os.walk took 0.220s, scandir.walk took 0.078s -- 2.8x as fast uncached: os.walk took 0.269s, scandir.walk took 0.139s -- 1.9x as fast _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com