Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm3

[Mike Fedyk]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:59:47AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > > - Several ext2 and ext3 allocator fixes.  These need serious testing on big
> > >   SMP.
> > 
> > OK, ext3 survived a swatting on the 16-way as well>
> 
> Great, thanks.
> 
> > It's still slow as snot, but it does work ;-)
> 
> I think SDET generates storms of metadata updates.  Making the journal
> larger may help get that idle time down.
> 
> Probably the default journal size is too small nowadays.  Most tests seem
> to run faster when it is enlarged.

Or maybe if it didn't start sync committing from the journal once it hits 50%.
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