From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261982AbULPSsh (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:48:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261987AbULPSsh (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:48:37 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:59854 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261982AbULPSsS (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:48:18 -0500 Message-ID: <41C1D870.2020407@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:48:16 -0800 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Masover CC: Peter Foldiak , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: file as a directory References: <200411301631.iAUGVT8h007823@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <41ACA7C9.1070001@namesys.com> <1103043518.21728.159.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> <41BF21BC.1020809@namesys.com> <1103059622.2999.17.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> <41BFC1C5.1070302@slaphack.com> <1103102854.30601.12.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> <41C0CF3B.1030705@slaphack.com> In-Reply-To: <41C0CF3B.1030705@slaphack.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Masover wrote: > > > Speaking of which, how much speed is lost by starting up a process? > > The idea of caching is that running > > cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *; cat * > > is probably slower than > > cat * > baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz Only for small files where the per file overhead of a read is significant.