From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40C66353.1040805@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:09:39 -0700 From: Matt Pidd-Cheshire User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] It's not like lightning is it ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 99626938-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Brantley Cole wrote: > Does the program in question buffer its output? > Plan 9 doesn't like lots of small writes. The tree is built during the input read phase and written when the input is exhausted through a stdio interface. 9 days and counting for the read phase, it didn't even get round to writing. The bottleneck seems to be kfs' reading the fresh data. Fat kfs buffers don't solve the initial read problem, the system generally is a bit slicker once the data is cached.