On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:57:34AM +1000, Robert Cohen wrote:
> I would like to report on my findings about Linux file serving
> performance. I will start with results for 2.2 kernels and finish with
> 2.4 results.
> The more recent test4 and test5pre2 don't fair quite so well.
> They handle 2 clients on a 128 Meg server fine, so they're doing better
> than 2.2 but they choke and go seek bound with 4 clients.
> So something has definitely taken a turn for the worse since test1-ac22.
you need to turn off slab poisoning to do meaningful benchmarks.
actually, Alan dared me to make it a `Kernel Hacking' config option,
so watch for that patch in about 30 minutes time.
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