Re: Page cache write performance issue

[Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:19:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >  So, any ideas what happened to 2.6.9?
> > 
> > Does reverting the below fix it up?
> 
> Reverting that one improves things slightly - I move up from
> ~4MB/sec to ~17MB/sec; thats just under a third of the 2.6.8
> numbers I was seeing though, unfortunately.
> 

Well something else if fishy: how can you possibly achieve only 4MB/sec? 
Using floppy disks or something?

Does the same happen on ext2?

It's exactly a 500MB write on a 1000MB machine, yes?