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From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: question about splice performance
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 18:22:50 +0100
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<posted & mailed>

Francis Moreau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I did a really basic benchmark and was suprise about the results.
> 
> $ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> $ time  splice-cp  vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux

Are vmlinux and /tmp both RAM filesystems? If not you may want to try
using /dev/shm to rule out disk speed...

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