Re: 2.4.x has finally made it!

Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:30:16 +0100


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Doug McNaught wrote:

> > Well, he wanted to benchmark everyday use, and disk latency is also an
> > issue for everyday use, of course;
>
> But it's more a measure of your disk subsystem than your VM efficiency
> (unless something is badly wrong).

The matters are:

- "everyday use" (go with fsync() for mail)

- how good does VM cope with - say - "priority write" actions like
fsync()?

-- 
Matthias Andree
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