Subject: Re: Sync vs. Async file system
To: Per Fogelstrom <pefo@enea.se>
From: Trevin Beattie <trevin@xmission.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/30/1995 19:17:56
At 04:26 pm 9/30/95 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>There was some talk about filesystem speed some time ago.
>I ran a benchmark that was posted to the net a while ago to
>see what the difference between async and sync mounting was.
>
>The test creates writes and deletes a number of files with
>different size.
>
>This was the result:
>
> create delete
>Type Size N /sec /sec
>--------------------------------------
>Sync 0k 500 84 2778
> 1k 500 48 90
> 4k 500 45 90
> 10k 500 32 90
>
>Async 0k 500 34 90
> 1k 500 26 35
> 4k 500 26 35
> 10k 500 20 29
>
>I'm not making any conclusions, this is only an observation.
>
>Per
>
>
That's nice, but try it again on a floppy drive!
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