Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 01:03:24 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 |
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On Fri, 18 May 2001, Sasi Peter wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Or are you just comparing with 2.2 and you'd rather > > have 2.2 performance? ;) > > Actually, yes. Doing fileserving with Samba, and also using the box > interactively feels better with 2.2, and also the average TCP througput > (measured by iptraf) seems higher.
This part is probably mostly due to the inode and dentry cache balancing being completely broken in current 2.4 kernels. Expect a patch soon (I'm running something really ugly right now here at home, I'll make something cleaner).
regards,
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