From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:55:16 -0400 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Why are some apps so slow? In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40609230647p4445affar3ca7969bbe9a869@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220609212231g4110c06ev96875a43c13ce968@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40609221321w3dd7dc55m6747aa3c67d057cd@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40609230647p4445affar3ca7969bbe9a869@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c00ffede-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > But in many cases the files read are small, and keeping the > fd open would not help. Just curiosity, anyway. Why wouldn't keeping the fd open help? It would get rid of the walk, open, and close, 3 of the 4 messages you were trying to get down to 1. Rsus