On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Chris Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> >
> > > Any of you tried copying a 2G file in the same (ext2)
> > > filesystem? It starts swapping like mad and generally behaves
> > > indecently, despite the huge 1024M of RAM it has.
> >
> > http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t8p1-vmpatch2
> >
> > I'm working on these issues and seem to be pretty close
> > to having fixed most of them now...
>
> Got any of the standard benchmarks (bonnie?) for us to drool over? :-)
On my (puny) test system, sequential output with bonnie increased
from 3.5MB/s to 5MB/s.
But of course this doesn't really mean much. Also, IMHO the
important thing is that the machine stays perfectly usable
during the bonnie run.
regards,
Rik
--
"What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!"
-- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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