Re: Reiser4 needs more testers

[markw@osdl.org]

It's an OLTP database workload, but it is the one with all those fsyncs
that Nikita pointed out.

Mark

On 29 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote:
> This was the parallel fsync benchmark?
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> Hans
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> markw@osdl.org wrote:
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>>I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against
>>reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison.  Reiser4 still seems to be lagging
>>behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in
>>the metric):
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>>          metric  url to test results
>>          ------  ---------------------------------
>>reiser4   1208    http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/
>>reiserfs  1819    http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/
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>>Mark
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>>On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>>We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory 
>>>related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone.  We 
>>>will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day 
>>>bug fixes.  When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next 
>>>week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official 
>>>kernel.
>>>
>>>We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two 
>>>issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its 
>>>stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) )
>>>
>>>We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts 
>>>that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it 
>>>soon.  Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com 
>>>about poor documentation, etc., ....
>>>
>>>The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at
>>>
>>>http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/
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