Re: Linux 2.6.29

Dave Jones
2009-04-03T23:38:57Z

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:14:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But I _think_ G.SKILL uses those horribly broken JMicron controllers.
> Judging by your performance numbers, it's the slightly fancier double
> controller version (ie basically an internal RAID0 of two identical
> JMicron controllers, each handling half of the flash chips).
>
> Try a random write test. If it's the JMicron controllers, performance will
> plummet to a few tens of kilobytes per second.

I got the 64GB variant of Jeff's g-skill SSD. When I first got it,
I ran aio-stress on it. The numbers from the smaller blocksize tests
are pitiful. To the extent that after running for 24hrs, I ctrl-c'd
the test. Really, really abysmal.

Dave