Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.4.{18,19{-ck9},20rc1{-aa1}} with contest

Stephen Lord (lord@sgi.com)
09 Nov 2002 07:35:04 -0600


On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 07:09, Con Kolivas wrote:
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> >On Sat, Nov 09 2002, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >> >You're showing a big shift in behaviour between 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-rc1.
> >> >Maybe it doesn't translate to worsened interactivity. Needs more
> >> >testing and anaysis.
> >>
> >> Sounds fair enough. My resources are exhausted though. Someone else have
> >> any thoughts?
> >
> >Try setting lower elevator passover values. Something ala
> >
> ># elvtune -r 64 /dev/hda
> >
> >(or whatever your drive is)
>
> Heres some more data:
>
> io_load:
> Kernel [runs] Time CPU% Loads LCPU% Ratio
> 2.4.20-rc1 [2] 1142.2 6 90 10 16.00
> 2420rc1r64 [3] 575.0 12 43 10 8.05
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> That's it then. Should I run a family of different values and if so over what
> range?
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There is more going on than this, XFS suffered a major slowdown in some
metadata write only benchmarks - the file create/delete phase of
bonnie++. Now thats a single app only doing writes. Slowdown on the
order of 500% to 600%. Since we did not follow the pre kernels in
2.4.20 we do not really know when it was introduced and there is
a possibility XFS itself has not followed some api change.

Steve

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