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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:25:57 +0100
From: Florian Heinz <sky@dereference.de>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Some problems with the raid-stuff in 2.4.0-test12pre3
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In-Reply-To: <14888.635.655989.944747@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>; from neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 06:56:43AM +1100
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On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 06:56:43AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday December 1, sky@dereference.de wrote:
> > It's so slow that it's unusable. Especially writing. open() and
> > close()-calls often hang for 20 seconds or more.
> > write-calls hang for 3-4 seconds. This has to be a bug.
> > But yes, after a long time, it finishes ;)
> 
> Well, that does sound slower than I would expect....
> 
> 1/ Could you try:
> 
>    http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux/2.4.0-test12-pre3/patch-E-raid5
> 
>    and tell me how much that helps.

That helped a _lot_! It's still slower than 2.2.x, but I'm happy with it!
Thank you.
I'm at your service if you need more testing ;)

Regards

Florian Heinz
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