Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269425AbUI3TDB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:03:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269415AbUI3TDB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:03:01 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:15111 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269432AbUI3TCB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:02:01 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:03:17 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1096570471 6607 192.168.12.100 (30 Sep 2004 18:54:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 14 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, this 2.6.9 cycle is getting too long, but here's a -rc3 and hopefully > we're getting there now. A recent note related to read vs. write speed actually shows about a 40% degrade in write speed from 2.6.8. I hope 2.6.9 will be held back at least a few days in hopes of verifying or debunking that. I have some results showing "slower" by about 30%, but it was just production runs, not benchmarks. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/