Re: Maildir and procmail and safecat

[Paul Jarc]

Sam writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > On Solaris an empty program issues some 19 system calls including
> > 2 opens. A write() of 1 byte surely gets lost in the noise.
> 
> After I cleaned up the typos, I averaged .11 seconds in ten sample runs
> (versus .14).

But with what kind of distribution?  Scale up your tests - many more
writes per run.  Then it'll be clearer that the effects we see are
coming from the writes, and not from constant overhead.


paul