Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread tom r
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: > >Alright, so I investigated this question a little bit more: > >Test: 102,400,000 Megabytes to IDE disk, with Pentium 166 or something like > >that. > >So the timings with mmap: > >Write: ~28 sec > >Reading: ~20 sec > > > >With read/write, the speed-up stronlg

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
>Wow, if I was manipulating nearly 100 terabytes of data I would opt for some >sort of SCSI RAID setup instead of IDE... :-) Yeah, good point:-) I didn't even know I had so much harddrive. It reminds me of this guy who said: "Gee, I managed to format a floppy to 30megabytesOps, format c:-

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Robert Anderson
>Alright, so I investigated this question a little bit more: >Test: 102,400,000 Megabytes to IDE disk, with Pentium 166 or something like >that. >So the timings with mmap: >Write: ~28 sec >Reading: ~20 sec > >With read/write, the speed-up stronlgly depends on how many bytes you write to >the

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Bob Bell
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > Test: 102,400,000 Megabytes to IDE disk, with Pentium 166 or something like > that. Wow, if I was manipulating nearly 100 terabytes of data I would opt for some sort of SCSI RAID setup instead of IDE... :-) -- Bob BellCompaq Computer Corporatio

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Marc Evans
Have you looked at the Xv extension? - Marc On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > Hi, > >Look at version 3.9.17* of XFree86 for speedups > The important stuff is how I draw on X actually. I'm using Qt, and now I'm > gonna implement an MIT-SHM X drawing thing. This seems to be

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Hi, >Look at version 3.9.17* of XFree86 for speedups The important stuff is how I draw on X actually. I'm using Qt, and now I'm gonna implement an MIT-SHM X drawing thing. This seems to be the fastest so far because it doesn't need a socket call for every single Pixmap operation I do. Even if

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Marc Evans
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > experiment with this. It was interesting, but now let's speed-up the X:-). Look at version 3.9.17* of XFree86 for speedups - Marc ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [E

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Alright, so I investigated this question a little bit more: Test: 102,400,000 Megabytes to IDE disk, with Pentium 166 or something like that. So the timings with mmap: Write: ~28 sec Reading: ~20 sec With read/write, the speed-up stronlgly depends on how many bytes you write to the disk at on

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-10 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > much faster it is: > 4,000,000 bytes: >mmap:Elapsed time: 4.820 seconds >open,write,etc:Elapsed time: 16.780 seconds > > 60 megs: > Elapsed time: 112.200 seconds > Elapsed time: 263.770 seconds > Somewhat faster:-). I did

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-09 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Hi again, The results are not really correct. For further investigation, I have to sleep first:-(. Ferenc ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the

Re: Off topic ? mmap timings

2000-02-09 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
Hi, >Please excuse a "not necessarily linux" question, but who wants to share >opinions/experience on the virtues of mmap ing a file as opposed to opening it >? I'm about to start work on a project where the local custom is to mmap input >files and I'm not so sure that's a good idea (the files and