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Subject: grep -r speed fc2 vs. rh 6.1

From: Gene Smith <gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 01:13:49 -0500

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I have the same huge source tree on fc2 500Mhz Athlon with IDE drive and on a old hp vectra 200Mhz with Pentium pro and scsi drive running rh 6.1 with ext2. A "grep -r" for the same string on the vectra takes about about a third as long to return results as compared to the somewhat "faster" Athlon/IDE/ext3 system running fc2. However, building the tree (and most everything else) takes longer on the vectra by a noticeable amount.

Both are running grep from a kde "konsole" in their respective kde environments. Is it possible that fc2 gives grep and possibly similar commands a lower priority than rh 6.1 gives? Or is it the scsi drives or ext2 (on rh 6.1) vs IDE and ext3 I am using on fc2?

Any ideas?

-gene