I am not using it as a benchmark. This is just in followup to the person
who posted that they observed kernel compile times that seemed to be
extremely long on a machine with RAID and XFS.
I offered this as a comparison running on a machine that has both RAID
and non-RAID filesystems and it shows no difference at all.
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:28:30PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:34:02PM -0600, Ray Muno wrote:
> > I did a quick test of a kernel compile.
>
> How is a kernel compile a test of disk performance? Kernel compiles are
> generally CPU-bound, not I/O-bound.
>
> Why don't you test it with a disk benchmarking tool?
>
> As far as your kernel compiles, on a 4-CPU system, make -j4 will most likely
> speed things up considerably.
>
> --Adam
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