From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265796AbUBBS0R (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:26:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265788AbUBBS0Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:26:16 -0500 Received: from s4.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.14]:22409 "EHLO mail2.uklinux.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265802AbUBBS0L (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:26:11 -0500 To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.1 slower than 2.4, smp/scsi/sw-raid/reiserfs References: <87oesieb75.fsf@codematters.co.uk> <20040201151111.4a6b64c3.akpm@osdl.org> <401D9154.9060903@cyberone.com.au> <87llnm482q.fsf@codematters.co.uk> <401DDCD7.3010902@cyberone.com.au> From: Philip Martin Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:08:01 +0000 In-Reply-To: <401DDCD7.3010902@cyberone.com.au> (Nick Piggin's message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2004 16:15:03 +1100") Message-ID: <877jz55p8e.fsf@codematters.co.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin writes: > Thats weird. It looks like 2.6 is being stalled on writeout. > Are running on all local filesystems? Yes. > You said a non-RAID ext2 filesystem performed similarly? Yes, the ext2 build was a little faster in terms of elapsed time, but it used the same amount of CPU as the RAID/ReiserFS build. -- Philip Martin