From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268702AbTGaUdM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268822AbTGaUdM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:33:12 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:39437 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268702AbTGaUdL (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:33:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:33:09 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm2 Message-ID: <20030731203309.GB970@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030730223810.613755b4.akpm@osdl.org> <20030731193741.GA1618@home.woodlands> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030731193741.GA1618@home.woodlands> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:07:41AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote: > However, when I did a `rpm --rebuilddb` on mm1 + O11int patches, I > still got quite severe skipping toward the end of the 8 min process. I > could not repeat the skipping again, even on the same kernel, because > I guess there was not much rebuilding to do again.. > > If there are tools which I can use to produce helpful numbers, please > let me know. I will post the required numbers ASAP. rpm is probably doing a lot of fsync() calls, so you'd want a benchmark that did similar. You'd get similar results from a mail server, or client running on a bunch of messages too.