| Date | Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:18:25 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 05:06, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Try 4 or 8 mkfs's in parallel on a 4x box running virgin 2.4.x.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:06:53PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > You have strange ideas of typical workloads. The mkfs paralle one is a good > one though because its also a lot better on one CPU in 2.5
The results I saw were that this did not affect 2.5 in any interesting way and 2.4 behaved "very badly".
It's a simple way to get lots of disk io going without a complex benchmark. There are good reasons and real workloads why things were done to fix this.
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