On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The good news is that if you let it run long enough, the times > > stabilize. The bad news is: > > > > create dir kernel-86 222MB in 15.85 seconds (14.03 MB/s) > > create dir kernel-87 222MB in 28.67 seconds (7.76 MB/s) > > create dir kernel-88 222MB in 18.12 seconds (12.27 MB/s) > > create dir kernel-89 222MB in 19.77 seconds (11.25 MB/s) > > well hang on. Doesn't this just mean that the first few runs were writing > into pagecache and the later ones were blocking due to dirty-memory limits? > > Or do you have a sync in there? > There's no sync, but if you watch vmstat you can clearly see the log flushes, even when the overall create times are 11MB/s. vmstat goes 30MB/s -> 4MB/s or less, then back up to 30MB/s.
On the same box, my shiny new FS writes at 30MB/s the whole time. For this part of the benchmark, I think we should all be getting the same numbers. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
