Re: Elevator problems began at... 2.3.42-pre7 to be exact :)

From: Lawrence Manning (lawrence@aslak.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 18:32:40 EST


Hi Linus!

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Indeed. Would you mind horribly being even more heroic and trying out
> some of the pre-patches? They are on
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/old/v2.3/*
>
> and there's actually eight of them.. Sorry. It would be wonderful to get
> more input on which one(s) are the big losers..

Okay :)

Here's ALL the interesting results:

2.3.42 (again)

Throughput 16.4416 MB/sec (NB=20.552 MB/sec 164.416 MBit/sec)
Throughput 15.5771 MB/sec (NB=19.4713 MB/sec 155.771 MBit/sec)
Throughput 13.9575 MB/sec (NB=17.4469 MB/sec 139.575 MBit/sec)
Throughput 15.4651 MB/sec (NB=19.3314 MB/sec 154.651 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-1 (after I fixed a typeo error in swapfile.c ;)

Throughput 15.3405 MB/sec (NB=19.1756 MB/sec 153.405 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-2 (why first one is low I have no idea...)

Throughput 6.33606 MB/sec (NB=7.92007 MB/sec 63.3606 MBit/sec)
Throughput 14.6856 MB/sec (NB=18.357 MB/sec 146.856 MBit/sec)
Throughput 16.0717 MB/sec (NB=20.0896 MB/sec 160.717 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-3 (kinda flakey that one!)

Throughput 11.4197 MB/sec (NB=14.2746 MB/sec 114.197 MBit/sec)
write failed on handle 4292
write failed on handle 4294
write failed on handle 4295
(41090) nb_stat: CLIENTS/CLIENT8/~DMTMP/ACCESS size=0 Bad address
(40349) nb_stat: CLIENTS/CLIENT12/~DMTMP/WORD/FACTS.DOC size=260096 Bad address
CRASH CRASH...VM...
Throughput 15.1072 MB/sec (NB=18.884 MB/sec 151.072 MBit/sec)
Throughput 10.6528 MB/sec (NB=13.316 MB/sec 106.528 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-4

Throughput 19.2921 MB/sec (NB=24.1152 MB/sec 192.921 MBit/sec)
Throughput 19.885 MB/sec (NB=24.8563 MB/sec 198.85 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-5

Throughput 19.063 MB/sec (NB=23.8288 MB/sec 190.63 MBit/sec)
Throughput 21.5287 MB/sec (NB=26.9109 MB/sec 215.287 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-6

Throughput 20.0287 MB/sec (NB=25.0358 MB/sec 200.287 MBit/sec)
Throughput 20.2301 MB/sec (NB=25.2877 MB/sec 202.301 MBit/sec)
Throughput 19.8589 MB/sec (NB=24.8237 MB/sec 198.589 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-7 (ahhhhhh)

Throughput 6.04799 MB/sec (NB=7.55999 MB/sec 60.4799 MBit/sec)
Throughput 6.11303 MB/sec (NB=7.64128 MB/sec 61.1303 MBit/sec)
Throughput 6.6129 MB/sec (NB=8.26613 MB/sec 66.129 MBit/sec)

2.3.42-8

Throughput 6.81836 MB/sec (NB=8.52295 MB/sec 68.1836 MBit/sec)

Well, over to you!!!

Lawrence

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