Re: SMP buildworld times / performance tests

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:44:53PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> Does softupdates provide faster performance than async/noatime?

In general it depends.  Softupdates is faster on creating a file and then
deleteing it before both hit the disk.  Softupdates nulifies out the
creation.  Async would write the file to disk just to turn around and
delete it.

For somethings mounting `async' is faster.

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