On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:13:40 -0500 (EST), Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
said:
> here's a patch i've been working on to help reduce system performance
> problems when manipulating large files. as i mentioned in an earlier
> message to this list, measurable performance degradation occurs when the
> buffer cache grows very large.
What problems are you seeing, exactly? In particular, if it is a
matter of system CPU increasing, it would be really useful to run under
a profiled kernel and find out where in the kernel the cycles are being
spent.
--Stephen
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