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Steve Bergman wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 11:15 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>
>>If you ask real users, they say that reiser4 is fast, and their
>>experience matches our benchmark. You can criticize the benchmark if
>>you want, but then you should run your own and publish it.
>>
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>As a "real" desktop user who just converted all his partitions from ext3
>to reiser4, I have not, as yet, noticed any startling performance
>increase. Being slightly slightly irked to hear that the benchmark
>numbers that have been paraded around on Slashdot and the internet in
>general, at ext3's expense, have had reiser4's "bad" results surgically
>extracted, I am running my own benchmarks to get the real story on
>reiser4/ext3 mongo performance on my, rather average, desktop hardware.
>
>I am using the latest Mongo on FC/rawhide and the 2.6.8.1-mm4 kernel.
>
>Unfortunately, I get an error from mongo.pl that "Done" is not a numeric
>argument at line 439.
>
>I have done this to fix it:
>
>
>--- mongo.pl 2004-08-27 17:07:01.681723313 -0500
>+++ mongo_fixed.pl 2004-08-27 17:06:51.369306735 -0500
>@@ -429,8 +429,8 @@
> if ( -e ${ERR_FILE}) {
> &DIE ("\nEXITED WITH FAIL\n");
> }
>- my $real = (split ' ', $time_output[0])[1];
>- my $cpu = (split ' ', $time_output[2])[1];
>+ my $real = (split ' ', $time_output[1])[1];
>+ my $cpu = (split ' ', $time_output[3])[1];
>
> unless ( $real =~ /\s*\d+/ && $cpu =~ /\s*\d+/) {
> LOG "@time_output";
>
>
>What it gets me is the "real" line of the "time" output for "STAT
>REAL_TIME" and the "sys" line of the "time" output for "STAT CPU_TIME".
>i.e. only system time is counted. I believe this was the intent of the
>original code, but want to verify before continuing.
>
>Thanks,
>Steve Bergman
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I didn't write this (more precisely, it only vaguely resembles what I
wrote in 1996). Are you saying that it reports system time as real
time? If yes, then it is an error, we need to go remove a bunch of
numbers from our benchmarks, and thanks for finding it.
Zam, please comment.
Hans
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