How could losing 40% of your CPU's to spin locks NOT spank your throughtput?
Can you copy your lockmeter data from its kernel_flag section? Id like to
see it.
>
> Possibly something else is happening. Have you tested ext2?
No. We're attempting to see if we can scale to large numbers of spindles
with EXT3 at the moment. Perhaps we can effect positive changes to ext3
before giving up on it and moving to another Journaled FS.
--mgross
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