On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 23:29:24 +0100, Droebbel wrote: > On Mi, 2005-02-16 at 22:55 +0100, Droebbel wrote: > >Some new information: > > > >2.6.7 is ok, 2.6.7-mm2 is not ok, 2.6.7 with just the linus-patch from > >mm2 is ok, 2.6.7 with linus.patch from mm3 isn't. > >So I took some of the patches from the broken-out mm2 and tested them > >seperately. > > > >The vmscan-dont-reclaim-too-many-pages.patch led to the said reduction > >of writing speed. I reverse-applied it to 2.6.8.1, where it seems to > >solve the problem. > > Sorry, have to correct that: it seemed to help at my tests with dd > (write 1G of zeroes to a file). Copying a file with mc still shows > around 1.4MB/s. Could be worse, but is definitely not ok. It *is* better > with 2.6.7.
Here are some numbers with my setup. I always wrote 1 GB of data to the same DVD-RAM disc (EMTEC), to the device directly and to a fresh ext2 on the disc. kernel 2.6.10: $ time { sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=64k count=16000 ; sync ; } real 32m5.025s $ time {sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cdrom bs=64k count=16000 ; sync ;} real 29m41.980s kernel 2.6.7: $ time { sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=64k count=16000 ; sync ; } real 13m23.688s $ time {sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/cdrom bs=64k count=16000 ; sync ;} real 13m14.609s Regards, Tino - 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/