Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 15:38:39 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: why swap at all? |
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Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:19:40PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>OK, this is obviously bad. Do you get this behaviour with 2.6.5 >>or 2.6.6? If so, can you strace the program while it is writing >>an ISO? (just send 20 lines or so). Or tell me what program you >>use to create them and how to create one? > > > program: mkisofs > kernel: 2.4.4-2.4.25, 2.6.4-2.6.6 > (To say it in other words, i never (seen/felt) a difference in 3 years. > So if there is a difference i just didn't realized there is one) > The current kernel is 2.6.5 as 2.6.6 sometimes just "hangs" > > Just throw together some lage files (My files are all >= 350MB, the > "typical" case is about 4-5files with 800-1000MB each) and then > mkisofs -J -r -o <image> <source-dir> > I store the image files on another HDD to get best possibel throughput. > My HDDs (these are "normal" IDE-HDDs) are capable of delivering about > 35-40MB/s, the last time i measured i got about 70MB/s aggregated > throughput while creating an image-file. >
Thanks. I'll see if I can reproduce. - 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/
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