2003-11-13 19:18:47

by Jason Holmes

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Subject: Re: 2.4 vs. 2.6 nfs client performance

Eric Whiting wrote:
>
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > > This is not the same test, nor the same results as Jason's, but
> > > here is some more data from bonnie and dd tests.This shows some
> > > write performance difference between 2.4 and 2.6 eric
> >
> > How about vs. 2.4.23?
>
> 2.4.23 looks good -- see below -- these are acceptable numbers for a 100M
> network. I reran the 2.6.0-test6-mm4 benchmarks and it still is much slower than
> the the 2.4.23.
>
> Question for Jason: -- are you running the 4/4 vm layout in your kernel? My
> 2.6.0-test6-mm4 has the 4/4 vm enabled -- which can have an impact on
> performance. I'll tetest with 2.6.0-test9 without the mm1 and 4/4 vm enabled.

Nope. I'm just doing normal 4GB highmem.

Thanks,

--
Jason Holmes


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