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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: iosched (was Re: Full of surprises - A reiser4 story from userland)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:48:21 -0700
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To: Islam Amer <pharon@gmail.com>
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Islam Amer wrote:

>>The performance boost for any of the provided iosched schemes can be
>>positive, negative, imaginary, or complex(*), depending on the actual workload of
>>the system, and what reference patterns it generates.
>>
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>>
>I assumed published benchmarks are conducted under strictly controlled
>conditions.
>  
>
The thing to do with benchmarks is to ask your friends and mailing lists
if the benchmarks seem accurate to them based on their usage experience.

The latest reiser4 has performance problems due to bugs added, but prior
to it there seemed to be agreement on our mailing list that experiences
matched our benchmarks.  Am I right?

Hans