Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:00:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.4.19-rc5 |
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:
> > I sort of hoped it would be better in performance, not > > increasingly worse. > > There were a lot of improvements during the 2.4.19-pre series on > several I/O benchmarks. Comparing 2.4.18 to 2.4.19 on a quad xeon. > Here are a few of the big changes (average of 5 runs):
Clearly, I may not have been clear that I expected 2.5.xx to be better than 2.4.xx. That may have been an artifact of tuning one kernel or the other, I'm waiting to get clarification on that.
> 300% drop in cpu usage on ext3 for tiobench seq reads
??? I hope you mean 67% drop.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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