On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:49:14PM -0700, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote:
> Results of write performance tests:
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>
> Sequential write using lmdd, file size is ~209MB on a 2 CPU system with
> total memory of 64M. The experiment is run over varying write-size from
> 1K to 1024K, 3 times for each block-size. This shows
>
> 1. Ext2 is well tuned (hardly any variation in 3 runs of each blocksize)!
Please not that 2.3 itself has significant performance regressions for
huge bulk writes (there were several threads on linux-kernel about that).
Partly the still broken page cache balance is probably to blame, for
other things the elevator (Jens Axboe's per device elevator patches seem
to cause a huge speedup)
With tuning 2.3.99pre2, an very old kernel, you might be duplicating
work that others already did.
-Andi
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