Re: performance & you-know-who

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
9 May 1999 04:46:37 GMT


In article <Pine.LNX.4.05.9905090353100.878-100000@laser.random>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> wrote:
>
>If the benchmark imply VM and I/O load, my tree will give a big boost (as
>_worse_ a 10% improvement) and it's rock solid (I doesn't work by luck).

According to what the mindcraft people reported about their runs
earlier, the disk light is not actually on very much during the test:
both Linux and NT keep the whole working set in memory.

Of course, so far we haven't actually seen what is going on, so take
that with a pinch of salt.

Linus

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