From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:15:06 -0700 Message-ID: <426E852A.40904@zytor.com> References: <20050426004111.GI21897@waste.org> <426DA7B5.2080204@timesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mike Taht , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 26 20:11:44 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQUWL-0006H2-8Q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:10:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261648AbVDZSPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:15:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261577AbVDZSPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:15:48 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:26498 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261539AbVDZSPi (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:15:38 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3QIFC3Z003406 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:15:13 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And don't try to make me explain why the patchbomb has any IO time at all, > it should all have fit in the cache, but I think the writeback logic > kicked in. The default log size on ext3 is quite small. Making the log larger probably would have helped. -hpa