Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 02:27:23 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Heikki Tuuri" <Heikki.Tuuri@innodb.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm3 and mysql
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"Heikki Tuuri" <Heikki.Tuuri@innodb.com> wrote:
>
> What to do? People who write drivers should run heavy, multithreaded file
>  i/o tests on their computer using some SQL database which calls fsync(). For
>  example, run the Perl '/sql-bench/innotest's all concurrently on MySQL. If
>  the problems are in drivers, that could help.

Well there's a problem.  We're kernel people, not database people.  I, for
one, would not have a clue how to set such a thing up.

If someone could prepare a simple-enough-for-kernel-people description of
how to get such a test up and running, then we might make some progress.

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