RE: [reiserfs-dev] Re: New XFS, ReiserFS and Ext2 benchmarks

2001-05-22 Thread Ricardo Galli
> > was _just_ copied from another file system (still in buffer/cache). > You might consider rebooting to flush the cache. > Is it possible to achieve the same by umounting/mounting the file system? --ricardo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: New XFS, ReiserFS and Ext2 benchmarks

2001-05-22 Thread Hans Reiser
Ricardo Galli wrote: > I was equally suprised, not only due to the wall-clock time but also to the > CPU. So, I think the cache is the major player when compiling a kernel that > was _just_ copied from another file system (still in buffer/cache). You might consider rebooting to flush the cache.

RE: [reiserfs-dev] Re: New XFS, ReiserFS and Ext2 benchmarks

2001-05-22 Thread Ricardo Galli
> My apologies, I meant that the make is probably compiler bound (I said CPU > bound) not FS bound. We undertood ;-) > > cp -ar, and I would like Yura to try to reproduce the cp -ar as > > it seems too > > good to be true. > We find that one must use cp and similar utilities (not The cp -a fig

Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: New XFS, ReiserFS and Ext2 benchmarks

2001-05-22 Thread Hans Reiser
My apologies, I meant that the make is probably compiler bound (I said CPU bound) not FS bound. We find that one must use cp and similar utilities (not compilers) to become FS bound when using a Linux FS (unlike the older Unixes for which compiles were considered excellent benchmarks). Hans Reis