Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 16:15:32 EDT

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    On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Chris Evans wrote:
    > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
    > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
    > >
    > > > Any of you tried copying a 2G file in the same (ext2)
    > > > filesystem? It starts swapping like mad and generally behaves
    > > > indecently, despite the huge 1024M of RAM it has.
    > >
    > > http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t8p1-vmpatch2
    > >
    > > I'm working on these issues and seem to be pretty close
    > > to having fixed most of them now...
    >
    > Got any of the standard benchmarks (bonnie?) for us to drool over? :-)

    On my (puny) test system, sequential output with bonnie increased
    from 3.5MB/s to 5MB/s.

    But of course this doesn't really mean much. Also, IMHO the
    important thing is that the machine stays perfectly usable
    during the bonnie run.

    regards,

    Rik 

    --
"What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!"
       -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000

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