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From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: "Mr. Berkley Shands" <bshands@exegy.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	Dave Lloyd <dlloyd@exegy.com>,
	linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS and 2.6.18 -> 2.6.20-rc3
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:08:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110220843.GA44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A4EA2B.5050505@exegy.com>

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:29:15AM -0600, Mr. Berkley Shands wrote:
> With a fresh install of the O/S on a non-broken motherboard, the change to
> 
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
> 
> restores most of the lost performance from 2.6.18,
> as of 2.6.20-rc4. The difference is 10% to 15% without the dirty_ratio
> change (40 is the default, 10 gives the old performance).

....

> So whatever needs to be tweaked in the VM system seems to be the key.
> 
> Thanks to all for getting this regression repaired.

Well, it's not repaired as such - you've got a WAR for the problem.
I'll report the problem to lkml so that the VM gurus can try to
really fix the problem....

Thanks for confirming that the dirty_ratio tweak also worked
for you.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group

      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-08 17:13 XFS and 2.6.18 -> 2.6.20-rc3 Mr. Berkley Shands
2007-01-08 17:17 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-09  1:22 ` David Chinner
2007-01-09  7:25   ` David Chinner
2007-01-10 13:29     ` Mr. Berkley Shands
2007-01-10 22:08       ` David Chinner [this message]

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