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To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [Benchmark] AIM9 results 
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:47:43 -0800
From: Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org>
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> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hans Reiser wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Andrew and Chris, are these changes in performance definitely due to VM
> >>>changes (and not some difference I am not thinking of between 2.5 and
> >>>2.4 reiserfs code)?
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>aim9 is just doing
> >>
> >>        for (lots)
> >>                close(creat(filename))
> >>    
> >>
> >                  unlink(filename);	/* of course */
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Oh, commercial fs vendors must really love tuning for this benchmark.... 
> sigh....
> 
Ya, we think the AIM stuff is getting a little old. The basic idea is fine, but
many of the tests do _very little work.  We (OSDL) would like to re-do 
AIM9+7 and make it more useful. We'd love to have some input from everyone....
For example, how big a file should we create for a real creat() test ?
cliffw

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