Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264803AbTFESXe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:23:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264807AbTFESXe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:23:34 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:30477 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264803AbTFESXd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:23:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:37:02 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Felipe Alfaro Solana Cc: Vladimir Saveliev , LKML , reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: file write performance drop between 2.5.60 and 2.5.70 Message-ID: <20030605183702.GC3291@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Felipe Alfaro Solana , Vladimir Saveliev , LKML , reiserfs-dev@namesys.com References: <200306042017.53435.vs@namesys.com> <1054749758.699.5.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054749758.699.5.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 911 Lines: 31 On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:02:39PM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 18:17, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: > > Hi > > > > It looks like file write performance dropped somewhere between 2.5.60 and > > 2.5.70. > > Doing > > time dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4096 count=60000 > > > > on a box with Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz and 1gb of RAM > > I get for ext2 > > 2.5.60: real 1.42 sys 0.77 > > 2.5.70: real 1.73 sys 1.23 > > for reiserfs > > 2.5.60: real 1.62 sys 1.56 > > 2.5.70: real 1.90 sys 1.86 > > > > Any ideas of what could cause this drop? > > What filesystem are you using? Good one. ext2 and reiserfs. Read the origional message again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/