Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Alan Cox
2003-02-24T13:55:50Z

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 05:06, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:56:16PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Furthermore, I can prove that isn't what you are talking about. Show me
> > the performance gains you are getting on 4way systems from your changes.
> > Last I checked, things scaled pretty nicely on 4 ways.
>
> Try 4 or 8 mkfs's in parallel on a 4x box running virgin 2.4.x.

You have strange ideas of typical workloads. The mkfs paralle one is a good
one though because its also a lot better on one CPU in 2.5