Re: [9front] State of the 9front mailing list archives

[Benjamin Purcell <benjapurcell@gmail.com>]

You would have to increase the speed of light only for 9p messages.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:31 AM,  <BurnZeZ@feline.systems> wrote:
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> On Fri Jun  3 14:46:01 EDT 2016, sl@stanleylieber.com wrote:
>> In my previous mail I was responding more to the same discussion that gets held over and over on IRC by the same people about how accessing the mailing list archive is awkward and slow.
>
> That's expected with latency and any protocol that requires a lot of back and forth.
>
>
> meiling% 9fs 9front >[2]/dev/null
> meiling% time ls -l /n/9front/lists/9fans >/tmp/foo
> 0.90u 0.08s 120.38r      ls -l /n/9front/lists/9fans
> meiling% wc -l /tmp/foo
>   93845 /tmp/foo
> meiling% echo 93845 / 120.38 | hoc
> 779.573018774 # files per second
>
> meiling% ip/ping -n 5 9front.org
> sending 5 64 byte messages 1000 ms apart to icmp!9front.org!1
> 0: rtt 49053 µs, avg rtt 49053 µs, ttl = 245
> 1: rtt 47224 µs, avg rtt 48138 µs, ttl = 245
> 2: rtt 47660 µs, avg rtt 47979 µs, ttl = 245
> 3: rtt 47340 µs, avg rtt 47819 µs, ttl = 245
> 4: rtt 47084 µs, avg rtt 47672 µs, ttl = 245
> meiling% echo 120.38 / 0.04672 | hoc
> 2576.62671233 # number of possible round trips
> meiling% echo 93845 / 2576 | hoc
> 36.4305124224 # estimated files per round trip
>
> # /tmp/cache is an arbitrary directory I store some crap
> meiling% time ls -l /tmp/cache >/tmp/bar
> 0.07u 0.01s 0.09r        ls -l /tmp/cache
> meiling% wc -l /tmp/bar
>    6161 /tmp/bar
> meiling% echo 6161 / 0.09  | hoc
> 68455.5555556 # files per second, locally
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>
> This assumes we send and receive messages, one at a time.
> It's better than I thought, but I suppose it doesn't scale well to
> directories with hundreds of thousands of files, or a higher
> latency link.
>
> What about increasing the speed of light?