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From: Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1 slower than 2.4, smp/scsi/sw-raid/reiserfs
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:01:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isipvuvz.fsf@codematters.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040202154959.283cf60b.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:49:59 -0800")

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Andrew, any other ideas?
>
> There seems to be a lot more writeout happening.

As far as I can see (and hear!) that's true.

> You could try setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio to 60 and
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio to 40.

Not much different:

2.6.1 (without elevator=deadline)

dirty_ratio:60 dirty_background_ratio:40

245.58user 121.82system 3:31.79elapsed 173%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+3771340minor)pagefaults 0swaps

dirty_ratio:40 dirty_background_ratio:10  (the defaults)

245.75user 121.33system 3:35.13elapsed 170%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+3770826minor)pagefaults 0swaps


-- 
Philip Martin

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-03  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-01 21:34 2.6.1 slower than 2.4, smp/scsi/sw-raid/reiserfs Philip Martin
2004-02-01 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-01 23:42   ` Philip Martin
2004-02-01 23:52   ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-02  0:51     ` Philip Martin
2004-02-02  5:15       ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-02  8:58         ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-02 18:36           ` Philip Martin
2004-02-02 23:36             ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-02 23:49               ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-03  1:01                 ` Philip Martin [this message]
2004-02-03  3:02                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-03 16:44                     ` Philip Martin
2004-02-03  0:34               ` Philip Martin
2004-02-03  3:52                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-02 18:08         ` Philip Martin
2004-02-03  3:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-03 16:46   ` Philip Martin
2004-02-03 21:29     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-03 21:53       ` Philip Martin
2004-02-04  5:48         ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-04 17:50           ` Philip Martin
2004-02-04 23:38             ` Philip Martin
2004-02-05  2:49               ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-05 14:27                 ` Philip Martin
2004-02-14  0:10       ` Philip Martin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-03  6:55 Samium Gromoff
2004-02-03  7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-03  7:52   ` Samium Gromoff
2004-02-03  7:57     ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-03 15:58       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-03  7:13 ` Nick Piggin

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