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From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem: Large file I/O waits (almost) forever
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:13:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hopuas9feq.fsf@gee.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0107231043520.24403-100000@biker.pdb.fsc.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0107231043520.24403-100000@biker.pdb.fsc.net> (Martin Wilck's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:05:04 +0200 (CEST)")

Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I just came across the following phenomenon and would like to inquire
> whether it's a feature or a bug, and what to do about it:
> 
> I have run our "copy-compare" test during the weekend to test I/O
> stability on a IA64 server running 2.4.5. The test works by generating
> a collection of binary files with specified lengths, copying them between
> different directories, and checking the result a) by checking the
> predefined binary patterns and b) by comparing source and destination with cmp.

Under what filesystem and with what kind of hardware did you run this?

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.inka.de
    http://www.suse.de/~aj

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-23  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-23  9:05 Problem: Large file I/O waits (almost) forever Martin Wilck
2001-07-23  9:13 ` Andreas Jaeger [this message]
2001-07-23  9:34   ` Martin Wilck
2001-07-23 16:00 ` Randy.Dunlap

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