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From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: John Newbie <john_r_newbie@hotmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [OT] Re: ide drives performance issues, maybe related with buffer cache.
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:59:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F3E46E6.4000906@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l98r.7U2.5@gated-at.bofh.it>

John Newbie wrote:
> 
>> RTFM , and STOP SPAMMING
> 
> 
> I've read them, see my previous posts. If you have nothing to say, 
> better stay silent.
> Ok, have a look at 2.6-test2, the same picture, slightly faster, though.
> And 2.6 by default set unmaskirq to 1.
> IO is really bursty (see post by insecure) opposite to `enemy I`.
> 

   If you are really newbie in Linux - I can advice you to try FreeBSD.
   By default FreeBSD (as of version 3.2) is much less aggressive in 
caching and buffering. I never saw Linux greedy caching/buffering 
working good - it always has some stupid edge cases when it is 
easier/faster to power-off/power-on/fsck system, rather than to get to 
console and kill offending process.
   But sure - Linux's throughput is much higher that in *BSD.
   Benchmarketing.


       reply	other threads:[~2003-08-16 14:58 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <l98r.7U2.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-16 14:59 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau [this message]
2003-08-16 15:23 [OT] Re: ide drives performance issues, maybe related with buffer cache John Newbie

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