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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas@online.no>
Cc: Con Kolivas <conman@kolivas.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	marcelo@conectiva.com.br, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.{18,19{-ck9},20rc1{-aa1}} with contest
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:17:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021110101730.GA14529@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1036923167.2538.7.camel@sevilla.gnome.no>

On Sun, Nov 10 2002, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> lør, 2002-11-09 kl. 14:54 skrev Jens Axboe:
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > The default is 2048. How long does the io_load test take, or rather how
> 
> The default on my RH system with the latest errata kernel is as follows:
> 
> [root@sevilla kmaraas]# elvtune /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda elevator ID		0
> 	read_latency:		8192
> 	write_latency:		16384
> 	max_bomb_segments:	6
> 
> [root@sevilla kmaraas]# uname -a
> Linux sevilla.gnome.no 2.4.18-17.7.x #1 Tue Oct 8 13:33:14 EDT 2002 i686
> unknown
> [root@sevilla kmaraas]# 
> 
> Is this worth changing to lower values then? They seem to be an awful
> lot higher than the values mentioned below here.

As I mentioned in the email sent out a few minutes ago, you cannot
compare the values from 2.4.19 and earlier to 2.4.20-pre/rc at all. The
algorithm for determining when a request is starved has been changed to
be more correct, and that has invalidated these values.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-10 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-09  2:00 [BENCHMARK] 2.4.{18,19{-ck9},20rc1{-aa1}} with contest Con Kolivas
2002-11-09  2:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-09  3:26   ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09  4:15     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-09  5:12       ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09 11:21         ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-09 13:09           ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09 13:35             ` Stephen Lord
2002-11-09 13:54             ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-09 21:12               ` Arador
2002-11-10  2:26                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-09 21:53               ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-10 10:09                 ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 16:23                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  4:26                   ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-10 10:12               ` Kjartan Maraas
2002-11-10 10:17                 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-11-10 16:27                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-09 11:20       ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-10  2:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10  3:56   ` Matt Reppert
2002-11-10  9:58   ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-10 10:06     ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-10 16:21       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 16:20     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 19:32   ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-10 20:10     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 20:52       ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-10 21:05         ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-11  1:54           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  4:03             ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  4:06               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  4:22                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  4:39                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  5:10                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  5:23                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11  7:58                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-11 13:56                       ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-11 13:45             ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-11 14:09               ` Jens Axboe
2002-11-11 15:48                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-11 15:43               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-10 20:56       ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11  1:08         ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-09  3:44 Dieter Nützel
2002-11-09  3:54 ` Con Kolivas
2002-11-09  4:02   ` Dieter Nützel

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