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Re: checkout-cache -f: a better way?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 21, 2005, 01:44 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505201841550.2206@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Fri, 20 May 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Yep, thanks.  Script does seem faster now. 
Yeah. They "seem faster".
> real    0m7.069s
to
> real    0m0.389s
That's what, 20 times faster?

More, actually, I suspect, since the "-m" version is not only faster, but it doesn't do much IO, so you'll not have tons of dirty pages/inodes etc afterwards.

		Linus
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