On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:37:26PM +0200, Krzysztof Kowalik wrote: > Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] One obvious guess is that it's due to VFS being under Giant, > > which causes lots of contention with other subsystems that also > > require Giant, and therefore introduces latency. If so, you'd see a > > substantial performance improvement on 6.0 with debug.mpsafevfs=1. > > I didn't see any visible difference, in the given scenario of > uncompressing firefox's sources, when tried mpsafevfs's patches when > they got announced on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There have been a *lot* of changes in this area since the initial patches (i.e. continued removal of Giant), so you'd really need to re-test on a recent version of 6.0 to be definitive. Kris
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