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Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:06:37 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Tests
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Andrew Morton wrote:

>But different filesystems will leave different amounts of dirty, unwritten
>data in memory at the end of the test.  On your machine, up to 200MB of
>dirty data could be sitting there in memory at the end of the timing
>interval.  You need to decide how to account for that unwritten data in the
>measurement.  Simply ignoring it as you have done is certainly valid, but
>is only realistic in a couple of scenarios:
>
unless I misunderstand something, he is running sync and not ignoring that.

I don't think ext2 is a serious option for servers of the sort that 
Linux specializes in, which is probably why he didn't measure it.

reiser4 cpu consumption is still dropping rapidly as others and I find 
kruft in the code and remove it.  Major kruft remains still.


-- 
Hans


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