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Re:Windows file access performance compared to Linux by natmaka on Saturday December 29, 2018 @09:41PM (#18787022)
Do you take the buffercache into account? If the server has more RAM unused by processes it probably uses it as a cache, which can be 3x quicker than a SSD.
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Re:Windows file access performance compared to Linux by MrRadar on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:52PM (#18787267)
Both machines should have sufficient memory to cache the entire codebase (including all header and library files) in RAM.
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