On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:55:00PM +0000, David E. Cross wrote: > Yes, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that my 6.1 partition > has a bad block in .. say.. libc that's delaying reads and causing me > trouble, I just remember installing 6.1 and thinking "OUCH". > > I get the impression that this is a latency issue more then a bandwidth > issue (responsiveness vs performance). so I think that any long running > test to see how effecitvely we swap isn't going to show anything. > > I could totally re-partition and get 4.x, 5.x and 6.x all on > concurrently if that would help. But I think I would need a good test > program to have waiting in the wings to quantitatively measure the > differences; anyone have any ideas?
The stress2 suite (www.holm.cc/stress) has a utility that is designed to stress this, you could check relative performance (after making sure it's deterministic). Kris
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