* Re: [lm@bitmover.com: Linux performance vs IRIX performance]
@ 1998-07-18 16:34 Larry McVoy
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From: Larry McVoy @ 1998-07-18 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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: > doesn't have, etc, etc. None the less, it is likely that Linux on the same
: > hardware would be about 3 times faster than IRIX.
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: Larry did not say what kind of FS he used on the Irix box (XFS or EFS), but
: for me it looks like a typical sync metadata/async metadata comparison.
It was XFS. The other way to be sure, I think, is that if it was a meta
update problem only, then the system times shouldn't be dramatically different.
Disk I/O is not that expensive.
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