Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 May 1999 11:10:28 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: performance & you-know-who |
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On 9 May 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.
I may be missing something, but it seems to me that the "working set in memory" thing basically makes a nonsense of their claim that this is an "enterprise-class" setup.
Matthew.
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