Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

Andi Kleen
2007-08-05T21:22:44Z

Brice Figureau <brice+lklm@daysofwonder.com> writes:
>
> 2) I _still_ don't get the "performances" of 2.6.17, but since that's the
> better combination I could get, I think there is IMHO progress in the right
> direction (to be compared to no progress since 2.6.18, that's better :-)).

If you could characterize your workload well (e.g. how many disks,
what file systems, what load on mysql) perhaps it would be possible
to reproduce the problem with a test program or a mysql driver.
Then it could be bisected.

-Andi