From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 01:44:30 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout-cache -f: a better way?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505201841550.2206@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <428E7994.1090402@pobox.com>



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