mfs and buildworlds on the SunFire x4600

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:45:12AM +0800, Mars G. Miro wrote:

> that or, does mfs speeding things up really work?  remains to be
> seen ...

Of course it does...even the fastest disk hardware on the market
(well, as of a year ago) is several times slower than memory writing,
and commodity disk hardware is orders of magnitude slower.  Yes, I
have the measurements to prove this:

  http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Filesystem%20Performance.pdf

Kris