Re: [coLinux-devel] Slow performance.

[Óscar F. <of...@wa...>]

Henry Nestler <Hen...@Ar...> writes:

> You wrote:
>> Host machine: 49 seconds
>> VMWare: 48 seconds
>> andLinux: 108 seconds
>
> There VMware is faster as native systems? That let me thing it is not
> real.

It is real. I checked it with a stopwatch.

> Or it is some kind of prefetching cache to have faster disk
> access? Perhaps VMware loads some of the disk into RAM?

The test suite starts a process more than 1000 times, pipes the output
into the controlling process, etc. My experience shows that GNU/Linux is
more effective than Windows for this sort of tasks.

> What is the host CPU type?

Intel Pentium M @ 2 GHz (single core).

-- 
Oscar