Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

Jens Axboe
2001-05-29T10:20:16Z

On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote:
> "Leeuw van der, Tim" wrote:
>
> > But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which
> > changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make it faster than 2.4.5 plain? Also, I
> > don't know if 2.4.5-ac1 is as fast as 2.4.5-ac2 for Fabio. If not, then it's
> > a change in the 2.4.5-ac2 changelog. If it is as fast, it is one of the
> > changes in the 2.4.5-ac1 changelog.
>
> 2.4.5-ac1 crashed on my machine, vanilla 2.4.5 worked but slower than 2.4.2
>
> 2.4.5-ac2 is _a lot_ faster than all the 2.4.4 and of vanilla 2.4.5
>
> please notice that I have a 4G machine, dual proc, and I run a very
> memory/IO/CPU intensive test, so your mileage may vary with different
> applications.

Could you try the 4GB I/O patches and see if they boost performance of
such cases?

*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5/

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Jens Axboe