From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <755cee220967127b18c63c0f03fd1545@quintile.net> References: <755cee220967127b18c63c0f03fd1545@quintile.net> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:45:24 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] wrarenas From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f4690434-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 rdarenas reads directly from disk. wrarenas writes to venti, which means all of the network and seek overhead. 36 hours is too long, but it definitely isn't going to run at disk speeds. it sounds like your bloom filter wasn't doing anything useful. russ