After serious contemplation, on or about Monday 19 March 2007 6:29 am
Jethro perhaps from
striderjl@aragorn.net wrote:
> Stephen Chadfield wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc unix_fan <tmellman@web.de> wrote:
>>> I just had an interesting experience - a task I had was about 67x
>>> faster under Solaris than when I'd previously run it under SuSE
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> I keep backups in a format I call .cgz - compressed cpio.
>>>
>>> I have such a backup that's about 6gig of uncompressed data.
>>>
>>> I wanted to expand it from the DVD it's on onto a new USB drive I
>>> have.
>>>
>>> It just took 36 hours to run the command:
>>>
>>> gzip -cd /media/K3something-or-other | cpio -icvd usb-dir
>>>
>>> I don't recall that creating the backup took overnight, but
>>> extracting it certainly did.
>>>
>>> Just on a hunch, I ran the restore on the Solaris system I just set
>>> up on
>>> the USB drive. It took about 32 minutes.
>>>
>>> You can't believe what a joy it was to see the DVD light on solid,
>>> rather than the stumbling sometimes on, sometimes off that happened
>>> under Linux.
>>>
>>>
>>> Some details to the task/test:
>>>
>>> The Linux test was from my desktop which has SuSE 10 running on an
>>> approximately 1GHz cpu and about 256 MB memory.
>>
>> Try another distro - I would recommend Troll Linux for your needs. It
>> has blindingly fast USB transfer speeds.
>>
>
> Just a small point: trolls often have difficulty with English.
> Something that is '67 times faster' would be '68 times as fast'.
> Trolls get confused & fail to make distinctions.
>
> The only test that is worth considering is one in which all those
> things that can be configured have been set to the same value. This is
> not 'tuning'; it is ensuring that you compare like with like. You
> could run openSUSE on a mainframe & Solaris on a desktop - but what
> would the point of the comparision be?
And if he could run openSuse on a Playstation 3 with its 8 cores (seven
of them available) why one might have to raise that blinding speed to
the power of googleplex or more.
--
Later,
Darrell Stec
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