Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 27-Oct-99 Peter Mutsaers wrote:
>  The only exception might be untarring large tarballs. Linux makes more
>  aggressive use of the filesystem buffer; it even swaps out quite
>  active processes to be able to cache large amounts. The drawback is
>  that the system as a whole tends to become quite sluggish, while BSD
>  has a better balance between keeping active processes and
>  filesystem-cache.

Is there anyway to tune this behaviour under FreeBSD? I know the argument is
that 'FreeBSD is self tuning' but some of us are unable to resist fiddling =)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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