Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet

[Daniel Phillips]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 23:30, David Newall wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> >> Your idea seems predicated on throwing large amounts of RAM at the
> >> problem.  What I want to know is this: Is it really 25 times faster than
> >> ext3 with an equally huge buffer cache?
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> Well, that sounds convincing.  Not.  You know this how?

By measuring it.  time untar -xf linux-2.2.26.tar; time sync

Daniel
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