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+Subject: Re: please eat my data!\r
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+On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:24:35 +0200, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de> wrote:\r
+> What I find intersting is that we have a 2x speedup and a 10x speedup\r
+> for different queries. Olly was saying on IRC that both *should* really be\r
+> behaving in much the same manner.\r
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+Remember that on ext3 (and pretty sure ext4) fsync is the same as\r
+sync(). So performance depends on how much dirty data you have in your cache.\r
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+libeatmydata also gets rid of msync(), O_SYNC etc as well.\r
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+-- \r
+Stewart Smith\r