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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!edmundv
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 00:53:36 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: AFS speed
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- From: edmundv@grafix.xs4all.nl (Edmund Vermeulen)
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- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- On 13 Jan 96 Bill Beogelein wrote about 'AFS speed':
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- BB> Some of the programs I use will often read/write a series of records.
- BB> Several 1000s records, about 200 bytes a pieces. They are read/written
- BB> 1-by-1 sequentially in small 200 byte pieces. (Not the most efficient
- BB> way to do it, but that is what SnoopDos and DosTrace are reporting.)
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- BB> In one such case, the old Amiga FFS takes about 15 seconds to do what
- BB> the AFS takes about 70 seconds to do.
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- Yes, AFS doesn't seem to be very efficient at writing very small blocks.
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- I discovered that CatEdit is extremely slow when writing catalog files to AFS
- partitions. According to the author of CatEdit this is the fault of iffparse
- library which writes out the data in very small blocks a few bytes at the time.
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- Greetings, Edmund
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