Re: [Patch] shm bug introduced with pagecache in 2.3.11

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 01:33:20 +0000 (GMT)


> You've lost:

> Computer: K6-200, 128 MB Ram, Symbios 810 scsi controller, Fujitsu
> Magneto-Optical drive, 620 MB [I have no empty scsi disc left :(],

So you benchmarked with a very slow I/O device. Ok that should mean its
silly numbers for both tied entirely to the seek rate of the media

> 620,000,000 bytes test file, fat filesystem, the same disk is used for
> NT and Linux.

Linux FAT performance is slow. Try NTFS (or FAT) versus ext2. That would
be interesting.

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