open() speed (was Blocking for disk I/O)

[Chris Torek]

In article <8295 at june.cs.washington.edu> ka at june.cs.washington.edu
(Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>...  So I tried writing a little C program
>that opened and closed a file in the current directory 1000 times:
>
>	17.3 real    0.0 user    3.2 sys
>
>This is on an otherwise idle system running Ultrix 3.0, a 4.2 BSD
>derivative.

Here is mine (entered with the `cat' editor :-) ), and my results:

	main(){register int fd,i;
	for(i=1000;--i>=0;) fd=open("foo",0), close(fd);
	}

	% time ./t
	0.1u 0.9s 0:01 84% 1+3k 0+0io 2pf+0w

4.3BSD > Ultrix ... ?
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