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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: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:41:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4592942C.5000306@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458DCB8D.3040804@emaze.net>

fdegrassi wrote:
> The specific problem is related to gnome point-n-click only.
> Anyway, I could be wrong, but i don't think it is a bug in gnome because:
> 1. it affects specifically local XFS filesystems only
> 2. the problem is not present on kernel 2.6.15 (I tested 2.6.17 and 
> 2.6.15, both on ubuntu 6.10)
> 3. the problem does not manifest if i disable the call to 
> gnome_vfs_forget_cache, that, for what i understand, simply calls 
> fadvice POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED.
> 
> More info can be found on gnome bugzilla entry.
> Francesco Degrassi
> 

Thanks.  I didn't mean to suggest that it was necessarily a gnome bug, 
just wanted to narrow down the problem.  Do you have any idea if other 
filesystems on 2.6.17 also show this slowdown?

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-27 15:42 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
2006-12-24  0:36   ` fdegrassi
2006-12-27 15:41     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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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