> helps performance, presumably because of that 14% fewer > cacheline effect. A 30GB dd to a ramfs file: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=$((1<<30)) count=30 > > is sped up by about 4.4% in my testing. Impressive result! -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>