Re: Asynch I/O gets easily overloaded on 2.2.15 and 2.3.99

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:52:22 +0100


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:36:01PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> According to http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/linux-scalability/reports/hash.html
> the inode hash is too big for a lot of workloads.

But we have to make _some_ decision about it at boot time. The cost
of having it too large on a less file-intensive workload may be less
than the cost of having it too small if you really are using that many
inodes.

--Stephen

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