From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: Gordon Mckeown <ml_lkml@thefluffyone.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very high IOWait during all disk activity
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:00:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C82C2A.5000301@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74d8fc520802290747o2c97992ar7af2b8c295fe2fb2@mail.gmail.com>
Gordon Mckeown schrieb:
(...)
> Unfortunately this doesn't help explain why Windows XP on the same box
> can complete an "identical" copy operation in half the time. Perhaps
> it's just due to the different filesystems, or the way write caching
> works?
Did you, at least:
* made a NTFS on that drive for a Windows test
* made a ext3 on that same drive for a Linux test
Or, is Linux using partition A, and Windows using partition B?
If it's the latter, such tests are not very meaningful.
Also, you gave too few details to say anything meaningful, really (did
you drop cache on both systems before starting copying? did you sync
after copying on both systems to see how long does it take? etc.).
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-29 15:18 Very high IOWait during all disk activity Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-29 15:47 ` Gordon Mckeown
2008-02-29 16:00 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2008-03-01 13:31 ` Gordon Mckeown
2008-03-01 19:41 ` Gordon Mckeown
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2008-02-29 14:16 Gordon Mckeown
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