From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: fdegrassi <francesco.degrassi@emaze.net>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Possible performance problem introduced between kernel 2.6.15 and 2.6.17 on xfs code
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:44:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <458D4EEB.3060501@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458D4845.2010803@emaze.net>
fdegrassi wrote:
> Hi all,
> i noticed that changing from kernel 2.6.15 to 2.6.17, gnomevfs-copy
> operations suffered an heavy performance hit (20 times slower).
> I checked quickly (i am not a kernel hacker) and i think it could be
> related to libgnomevfs calling fadvice POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED (in
> gnome_vfs_forget_cache, disabling this behaviour gets back normal
> performance).
> I am not able to dig deeper than this, anyway it could be a starting point.
> The relevant gnome bugzilla reference is the following:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363400
>
> Francesco Degrassi
>
>
Is a copy command from the shell affected, or just gnome point-n-click?
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-23 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-23 15:16 Possible performance problem introduced between kernel 2.6.15 and 2.6.17 on xfs code fdegrassi
2006-12-23 15:44 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2006-12-24 0:36 ` fdegrassi
2006-12-27 15:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-12-27 18:03 ` Francesco Degrassi
2006-12-27 18:05 ` Iustin Pop
2006-12-28 9:56 ` Francesco Degrassi
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