> Yes. Last time I tested, -pipe was _always_ a loser, and writing to
> swap was measurably faster than writing to fs.
Yup, was a looser for me too. I have a vague random theory that
things get blocked on pipe writes, thus causing more context switches.
I have plans at some point to try the improved pipe stuff that
Hubertus and others were working on, and see if that helps.
M.
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