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On a machine that is doing 0 swapping: last pid: 47437; load averages: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.4% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 35M Active, 285M Inact, 271M Wired, 44K Cache, 111M Buf, 402M Free Swap: 2007M Total, 2007M Free I just did: mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 200m -o reserve newfs /dev/md0 Now, my understanding, this builds a file system 'in core', vs on the disk ... with memory being faster then disk, I would have assumed that read/write performance would have been better, but, using iozone, I'm not finding enough of a difference in performance to understand why I'd want to use a memory file system: aster# pwd /usr aster# iozone 180 | grep "the file" It then reads the file. It prints the bytes-per-second Reading the file...1.007812 seconds 54658803 bytes/second for writing the file 187280550 bytes/second for reading the file aster# pwd /usr aster# cd /mnt aster# df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/md0 198126 4 182272 0% /mnt aster# iozone 180 | grep "the file" It then reads the file. It prints the bytes-per-second Reading the file...0.984375 seconds 60701485 bytes/second for writing the file 191739611 bytes/second for reading the file Am I missing something here? Or is this expected? - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGCHmb4QvfyHIvDvMRAugAAKDhsRHHeV/0LsQSGLNrLB6cDe2TDgCeMW3i PNL/GimacMHC5W6XWcyIOLo= =a4Tk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"