Re: Lower disk performance with 2.3.9....
Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:08:12 +0200 (CEST)
>On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>
>> This is the output from hdparm -T /dev/hda:
>>
>> Linux 2.3.5:
>> /dev/hda:
>> Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.50 seconds =128.00 MB/sec
>>
>> Linux 2.3.9:
>> /dev/hda:
>> Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.53 seconds =120.75 MB/sec
The buffer hashtable is been shrunk regardless of people which uses block
devices as files without a filesystem on top of them.
Andrea
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