Re: 2.2.6-pre6 ext3

[Andrew Morton]

Mike Black wrote:
> 
> 2.2.6-pre6 with ext3-2.4-0.0.8-246p5
> System is a dual PIII/1Ghz 2G memory
> Qlogic 2100 Fibre Channel
> 
> This is on a raid5 -- since both linux version and ext3 were changes not
> sure which is the cause yet.  I'm waiting for resync to finish to try it on
> ext2.

Could well be ext3.  We're going through the out-of-memory
corner cases at present.

> ...
> 
> This same test was run multiple times on 2.2.5 without ext3 with much better
> results too:

I'd be surprised if read performance was significantly different. It
shouldn't be.

> Done 6/7/01
> Linux yeti 2.4.5 #2 SMP Sat May 26 07:13:52 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
> root@yeti:/usr5# tiobench.pl --size 4000

Thanks - I'll go try tiobench.

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