Re: [BUG] Error reading multiple large files

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:45:57PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've sent this before, but as far as I can see, nothing's changed.
> 
> I'm having problems reading multiple large files at once. Reading 100 1GB
> files at once.
> 
> What happens is, when the buffer cache gets filled up, it all stalls, and
> transfer speed drops from 40-50 MB/s to a mere 2MB/s.
> 
> This has been tested on all versions from 2.4.16-2.4.18-pre1.

please try to reproduce on 2.4.18pre2aa2:

	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.18pre2aa2.bz2

> 
> I've been testing Tux, Khttpd, apache 1.3.22, Apache 2, thttpd, cp and
> dd to verify the bug.

tux latest version is just included in -aa. please don't apply any
incremental patch before testing 18pre2aa2 to be sure the problem is not
introduced by some other patch.

> 
> Please help!
> 
> roy
> 
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> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
> 
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Andrea