From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:55:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:55:03 -0400 Received: from horus.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.25]:11426 "EHLO horus.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:54:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3B291A.3DFDA2A4@uow.edu.au> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:54:50 +1000 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Black CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.or" , raid Subject: Re: 2.2.6-pre6 ext3 In-Reply-To: <02bd01c0ffcf$6a85f150$e1de11cc@csihq.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Black wrote: > > 2.2.6-pre6 with ext3-2.4-0.0.8-246p5 > System is a dual PIII/1Ghz 2G memory > Qlogic 2100 Fibre Channel > > This is on a raid5 -- since both linux version and ext3 were changes not > sure which is the cause yet. I'm waiting for resync to finish to try it on > ext2. Could well be ext3. We're going through the out-of-memory corner cases at present. > ... > > This same test was run multiple times on 2.2.5 without ext3 with much better > results too: I'd be surprised if read performance was significantly different. It shouldn't be. > Done 6/7/01 > Linux yeti 2.4.5 #2 SMP Sat May 26 07:13:52 EDT 2001 i686 unknown > root@yeti:/usr5# tiobench.pl --size 4000 Thanks - I'll go try tiobench. -