Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261539AbVDZSPw (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:15:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261577AbVDZSPt (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:15:49 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:26498 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261539AbVDZSPi (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:15:38 -0400 Message-ID: <426E852A.40904@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:15:06 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Mike Taht , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks References: <20050426004111.GI21897@waste.org> <426DA7B5.2080204@timesys.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 535 Lines: 15 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And don't try to make me explain why the patchbomb has any IO time at all, > it should all have fit in the cache, but I think the writeback logic > kicked in. The default log size on ext3 is quite small. Making the log larger probably would have helped. -hpa - 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/