From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, riel@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: [patch 1/21] random fixes
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:49:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D5857A4.FE358FA2@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020813002603.GA20817@www.kroptech.com
Adam Kropelin wrote:
>
> ...
> > You can make 2.5 use the 2.4 settings with
> >
> > cd /proc/sys/vm
> > echo 30 > dirty_background_ratio
> > echo 60 > dirty_async_ratio
> > echo 70 > dirty_sync_ratio
>
> These settings bring -akpm in line with stock 2.5.31, but they are both
> still slower than 2.4.19 (which itself could do better, I think).
In that case I'm confounded. It worked sweetly for me. Just
wget ftp://other-machine/600-meg-file
on a machine booted with mem=160m. Took 63 seconds over 100bT,
steady column of writes in vmstat.
Which ftp client are you using? And can you strace it, to see how
much data it's writing per system call?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-13 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-11 7:38 [patch 1/21] random fixes Andrew Morton
2002-08-11 7:56 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-11 14:29 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-11 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-12 0:27 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-12 0:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-12 4:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-13 0:26 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 0:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-08-13 2:25 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 3:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-13 4:10 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 5:25 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-13 12:37 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-13 17:21 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-13 5:32 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-13 15:39 ` Daniel Egger
2002-08-14 0:01 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-12 2:54 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-08-12 3:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-14 8:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
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