Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: open() speed (was Blocking for disk I/O) Keywords: open(2), 4.2 BSD, ultrix, vax, sun Message-ID: <3376@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 22 May 89 16:34:26 GMT References: <159@zebra.UUCP> <1608@auspex.auspex.com> <2@minya.UUCP> <8295@june.cs.washington.edu> <17643@mimsy.UUCP> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Organization: Koyaanisqatsi Lines: 15 In-reply-to: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) ) (Kenneth Almquist) writes: ) >that opened and closed a file in the current directory 1000 times: ) > 17.3 real 0.0 user 3.2 sys ) >Ultrix 3.0, a 4.2 BSD Chris Torek writes: ) 0.1u 0.9s 0:01 84% 1+3k 0+0io 2pf+0w ) 4.3BSD > Ultrix ... ? Sun-3/280, SunOS 3.5.2: 0.0u 0.5s 0:00 87% 0+8k 2+0io 0pf+0w Sun > Vax ? ________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu