Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:33:09 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm2
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:07:41AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote:
> However, when I did a `rpm --rebuilddb` on mm1 + O11int patches, I
> still got quite severe skipping toward the end of the 8 min process. I
> could not repeat the skipping again, even on the same kernel, because
> I guess there was not much rebuilding to do again..
> 
> If there are tools which I can use to produce helpful numbers, please
> let me know. I will post the required numbers ASAP. 

rpm is probably doing a lot of fsync() calls, so you'd want a benchmark that
did similar.  You'd get similar results from a mail server, or client
running on a bunch of messages too.
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