Rising io_load results Re: 2.5.63-mm1

Con Kolivas
2003-02-27T21:12:01Z

I mentioned this previously; it's still happening.

This started some time around 2.5.62-mm3 with the io_load results on contest
benchmarking (http://contest.kolivas.org) rising with each run. It still
occurs with 2.5.63-mm1 regardless of which elevator is specified. This is the
io load result time(seconds) for 6 consecutive runs in compile time:

111
147
221
284
334
358

/proc/meminfo after 6 runs and mem flushing:

MemTotal: 256156 kB
MemFree: 238708 kB
Buffers: 2320 kB
Cached: 1552 kB
SwapCached: 1780 kB
Active: 5876 kB
Inactive: 2120 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 256156 kB
LowFree: 238708 kB
SwapTotal: 4194272 kB
SwapFree: 4192416 kB
Dirty: 28 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 4294923652 kB
Slab: 4872 kB
Committed_AS: 7032 kB
PageTables: 200 kB
ReverseMaps: 631

I am refraining from publishing any benchmark results with this happening. It
doesn't seem to occur on 2.5.63

Con