On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Richard Braun wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:53:30PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > So, switching to a SSD does give a small performance boost, but not the
> > big one we had hoped for. Using --no-atime improves this further.
> > Perhaps we should
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Richard Braun wrote:
> the port to pthreads), I noticed that much of the time spent by the CPU
> is actually wasted for two major reasons.
I didn't emphasize enough that, contrary to "popular" belief, the main
bottleneck is _CPU_ time (well, the suboptimal
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:53:30PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> So, switching to a SSD does give a small performance boost, but not the
> big one we had hoped for. Using --no-atime improves this further.
> Perhaps we should follow suit with the Linux kernel, and implement and
> make default a ยป
