From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264504AbTFBQgo (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:36:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264505AbTFBQgo (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:36:44 -0400 Received: from mout1.freenet.de ([194.97.50.132]:24468 "EHLO mout1.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264504AbTFBQgm (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:36:42 -0400 From: Andreas Hartmann X-Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] rmap 15j for 2.4.21-rc6 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:55:48 +0200 Organization: privat Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: susi.maya.org 1054572948 2190 192.168.1.3 (2 Jun 2003 16:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@fu-berlin.de User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Frank wrote: > On Sunday 01 June 2003 19:00, Andreas Hartmann wrote: >> >> Well, I did the test with 2.4.21rc6 after patching your script (I got >> syntax errors): > > About your script changes, I like to make it portable, and I use the > following versions: > > GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 2.02.1(1)-release > > dd (coreutils) 4.5.3 dd (fileutils) 4.1 > What shell and coreutils are you using? They are obviously much older :-). > Avoiding short counts is easy but avoiding C-style expressions is > primitive > > - count=100K > + count=100000 > > - while (( i-- )); do > + while (( i=`expr $i - 1` )); do > > In your opinion are your changes more portable across a wide range of > systems? I didn't think at portability :-). I only made it working for me. Maybe there are other persons out there who do have some old versions too - so they can use this patch. >> When I'm using the script as seen in the patch, I'm getting problems with >> df (it's mostly very lazy, about 20s delay or more), the load is 4, doing >> an ls on some other directories is extremly slow. Mouse and keyboard are >> hanging some times. >> The write speed shown in xosview was between 1 and 15MB/s. Often the HD >> LED was on, but no data seemed to be put to the HD. >> > > It has a hard time to read anything else, the slower the disk, the worse. > > Suppose rmap undoes the fixes introduced in -rc6. > > Have you tried -rc6 plain? Yes - I only tested this kernel. Regards, Andreas Hartmann