2.4.10 and ext3

Mike Black (mblack@csihq.com)
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:54:42 -0400


Status report...
Upgraded from 2.4.8 to 2.4.10 (with new 2.4.10 patch).
This is on a dual PIII/1Ghz FibreChannel 2G RAM

Single-threaded Seq Read improves a LOT (doubles+)
Multi-threaded Seq Read improved a bit
Seq Write improves a LOT
Rand Write decreases a bit
All are using less CPU time.

Here's 2.4.8
Linux yeti 2.4.8 #2 SMP Fri Aug 17 05:50:03 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
Done 9/5/01
root@yeti:/usr5# tiobench.pl --size 4000
Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/secd . -T

File Block Num Seq Read Rand Read Seq Write Rand Write
Dir Size Size Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%)
------- ------ ------- --- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
. 4000 4096 1 39.83 30.8% 0.572 0.87% 21.83 55.8% 1.226 0.70%
. 4000 4096 2 21.30 21.2% 0.711 1.52% 9.695 70.0% 1.274 1.05%
. 4000 4096 4 18.86 19.6% 0.844 1.92% 9.568 70.1% 1.228 1.62%
. 4000 4096 8 17.38 18.7% 0.983 2.12% 5.995 98.7% 1.255 1.54%

Here's 2.4.10
tiobench.pl --size 4000
Size is MB, BlkSz is Bytes, Read, Write, and Seeks are MB/secd . -T

File Block Num Seq Read Rand Read Seq Write Rand Write
Dir Size Size Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%)
------- ------ ------- --- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
. 4000 4096 1 85.57 46.9% 0.689 0.83% 26.02 28.7% 0.993 0.57%
. 4000 4096 2 28.08 16.4% 0.805 1.36% 25.71 36.4% 1.062 0.57%
. 4000 4096 4 22.50 13.5% 0.927 1.76% 16.69 26.3% 1.097 0.72%
. 4000 4096 8 20.37 12.6% 1.062 2.00% 13.01 21.5% 1.114 0.85%

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Michael D. Black Principal Engineer
mblack@csihq.com 321-676-2923,x203
http://www.csihq.com Computer Science Innovations
http://www.csihq.com/~mike My home page
FAX 321-676-2355

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