> Tom,
>
> There have been drastic changes to the directory-entry / inode handling in
> 2.1.x (now 2.2.0-pre-release) kernels. It would be interesting to compare
> the performance of the latest-and-greatest to OpenBSD, bearing in mind
> that the Linux box has a 2/3 handicap in CPU speed.
I ran his tests on my system's /var, 62M with loads of small files
(news). My system is SMP, 2.1.132, 200MHz PPros and a DPT 2044W
controller. Seagate Hawk drive. 256MB RAM.
All the tests were faster than his BSD reports, most well under
one second.
I personally don't think the test is that meaningful because you
really want to test throughput on something larger. Once in RAM,
the test ran in tenths of a second on my machine. I'm sure the
bottleneck is X at that point... :)
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