From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Reiser4 needs more testers Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:04:52 -0800 Message-ID: <40687354.1060604@namesys.com> References: <200403291659.i2TGxQ214736@mail.osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200403291659.i2TGxQ214736@mail.osdl.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: markw@osdl.org Cc: Nikita@namesys.com, Reiserfs-Dev@namesys.com, Reiserfs-List@namesys.com, Linux-Kernel@Vger.Kernel.ORG, cliff@lindows.com, tom.welch@lindows.com, garloff@suse.de, drobbins@gentoo.org, reiserrf@hotmail.com This was the parallel fsync benchmark? Hans markw@osdl.org wrote: >I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against >reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison. Reiser4 still seems to be lagging >behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in >the metric): > > metric url to test results > ------ --------------------------------- >reiser4 1208 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/ >reiserfs 1819 http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/ > >Mark > >On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory >>related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone. We >>will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day >>bug fixes. When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next >>week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official >>kernel. >> >>We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two >>issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its >>stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) ) >> >>We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts >>that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it >>soon. Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com >>about poor documentation, etc., .... >> >>The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at >> >>http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/ >> >> > > > > > -- Hans