Re: Cached file read performance

2006-12-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: I used the attached program to read a cached 781MB file sequentially and randomly with a specified block size (see below). In the interest of making it easy for anyone to re-test this later, I'll in-line the program source here (I did post a link to my web space, but t

Re: Cached file read performance

2006-12-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
David Xu wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: . (snippage) I used the attached program to read a cached 781MB file sequentially and randomly with a specified block size (see below). The conclusion I came to was that our (i.e FreeBSD) cached read performance (particularly for smaller block sizes) cou