Re: Why is 2.4.32 four times faster than 2.6.14.6??

[Jan Engelhardt]

>grant@deltree:~$ time grep -v 192\.168\. /var/log/apache/access_log |cut -c-96
>
>real    0m1.671s
>user    0m0.550s
>sys     0m0.300s
>grant@deltree:~$ time grep -v 192\.168\. /var/log/apache/access_log |cut -c-96 >/dev/null
>
>real    0m0.510s
>user    0m0.420s
>sys     0m0.080s

Given that the first command is the first one accessing access_log at 
all, then: the second time, access_log is already cached and 
therefore can be accessed faster.


Jan Engelhardt
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