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From: ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: open() speed (was Blocking for disk I/O)
Summary: Silly me.
Keywords: open(2), 4.2 BSD
Message-ID: <8324@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 18:59:38 GMT
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I wrote:
>> ...  So I tried writing a little C program
>> that opened and closed a file in the current directory 1000 times:
>>
>> 	17.3 real    0.0 user    3.2 sys
>>
>> This is on an otherwise idle system running Ultrix 3.0, a 4.2 BSD
>> derivative.

Chris Torek's numbers:
> 	% time ./t
> 	0.1u 0.9s 0:01 84% 1+3k 0+0io 2pf+0w
> 
> 4.3BSD > Ultrix ... ?

Torek > ka.  The file I was opening was on an NFS file system rather
than a local file system.  Using a local file decreases the times to

	0.4 real    0.0 user    0.4 sys

Also, the using the empty file rather than an executable program for
the true command is faster when NFS is not involved:

	2.8 real    0.3 user    2.3 sys		(when using empty file)
	4.2 real    0.3 user    3.8 sys		(when using executable)

Kenneth Almquist