Re: [ck] Re: Staircase test patch

[Peter Williams]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Saturday 01 April 2006 07:31, Thorsten Will wrote:
> > On Friday 31 March 2006 23:07 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > Hi Thorsten et al
> > Hi, Con.
> >
> > > Thorsten could you please test to see if this fixes the problem for you?
> > Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
> >
> > Against a bash loop:
> > |# dd bs=1M count=2048 </dev/hdb >/dev/null
> > |2048+0 records in
> > |2048+0 records out
> > |2147483648 bytes transferred in 35.497603 seconds (60496582 bytes/sec)
> >
> > Yes! Success! And the crowd goes wild! :-)
> >
> > I think you finally nailed it. Thank you so much!
>
> No, thank _you_ for bringing it to my attention and testing :)

Should I apply this to staircase in PlugSched?

Peter
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