Re: Sparc has slow disk access

[Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>]

> Try the solaris test again, Binkey, and this time use a filesystem
> other than /tmp for the output.  Try setting up a ufs-log file
> system and see if the performance doesn't exceed that of linux.

I would think that Solaris tmpfs was faster than their filesystems since
it wont hit disk unless memory pressure pushes things out to swap.

btw last time I checked, Linux on ext2 beat Solaris on tmpfs at dbench (a
filesystem benchmark) by a large margin on a dual ultra 60.

Anton