Re: Moving oss trees to 2.4.0-test1

[Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan <ananth@xxxxxxx>]

Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> >
> > (1) lmdd write on a file sized >> memory size hangs the lmdd process.
        
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> >
> > I'll try to get a more recent kernel and verify these.
> >
> > ananth.
> 
> lord{lord}: lmdd of=/xfs/lord/lmdd count=100000
> 819.2000 MB in 88.0970 secs, 9.2988 MB/sec
> 
> That one appears to work.

On a latest & greatest kernel, I too am NOT seeing
this problem  now --- I guess the mere mention of it made it
go away ;-)  Absolute performance is still 10-15% slower
than in the 2.3.99pre2, but guess that EXT2 will have
similar problems (as with bonnie).

ananth.