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SubjectRe: Adaptive read-ahead: benchmarks
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Paolo Ornati wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:16:51 +0800
> WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> > oprofile() {
> > opcontrol --vmlinux=/temp/kernel/linux-2.6.13ra/vmlinux
> > opcontrol --start
> > opcontrol --reset
> > echo $1 > /proc/sys/vm/readahead_ratio
> > dd if=/temp/kernel/hugefile of=/dev/null bs=$bs
> > opreport -l -o oprofile.$1.$bs /temp/kernel/linux-2.6.13ra/vmlinux
> > opcontrol --stop
> > }
>
> just a side note: shouldn't you umount and remount "/temp" to remove
> the pagecache? Or is the file so big that it doesn't matter?
Thanks for the reminding. I'm currently using huge files for testing:
# ll bigfile hugefile
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 626M 2005-09-07 20:29 bigfile
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3.7G 2005-09-11 11:24 hugefile
The umount tip seems nice and I'll use it for future testing :)
>
> PS: instead of unmount/remount you can use "fadvise":
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz
OK, I'll check it.
>
> --
> Paolo Ornati
> Linux 2.6.14-rc1 on x86_64

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WU Fengguang
Dept. of Automation
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, Anhui
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