Re: Significant Slowdown Occuring in 2.2 starting with 19pre2

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:41:38 +0000 (GMT)

> I've tracked to 2.2.19pre2. I do backups to a SCSI magneto-optical disk.
> My /home backup creates a 700MB+ file (using BRU). When I was using
> 2.2.14, this took roughly a half hour. When I upgraded to 2.2.20, this

> 2.2.17 22 23 22 <--- notable improvement
> 2.2.18 34 40
> 2.2.19p1 30 44
> 2.2.19p2 161 165 <--- 4x to 5x longer

The only change in 2.2.19pre2 is the merge of Andrea Arcangeli's VM. Please
talk to Andrea and see if he can work out why

Alan
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