Re: Mea Culpa

[Rogier Wolff]

Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> 
> Ingo, et al,
> 
> Ok, I admit it.  I'm a horse's rear-end.  
> 
> After many gripes about Midnight Commander being extremely slow under
> 2.1.x kernels when stat-ing in large directories, I finally came to my
> senses and realized that the target directory was actually a symlink to an
> NFS volume :-(.  The link is only 10Base-T, so of course it was fairly
> slow. 
> 
> Many, many apologies.  I'm not often this dense, but when I am I do it
> well.  Sorry for the bandwidth and effort wastage <groaning and ducking>.

Let me get this straight: You mean that you had two different
machines, one of which had NFS mounted that directory that went
quickly on the other machine?

There are MANY MANY effects that can cause performance differences.
In the future (anybody listening?) please make sure you really
eliminate all other possibilities by really running the test at least
three times on the same machine:

case A
case B
case A

to make sure that 1) there are no other factors involved. 2) that not
a sudden jump in the network load or something influences your
results. (3: 3 is too small a number)

				Roger.

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