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

[David Newall]

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 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
>   

No numbers.  No specifications.  And by doing a sync, you explicitly
excluded what I was asking, namely a big buffer cache.  You've certainly
convinced me; you don't know if your idea is worth a brass razoo.

Come back when you've got some hard data.
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