No -- bonnie doesn't need 1G ram -- bonnie needs to test using a file
much larger than available ram to ensure that bonnie actually writes
something to disk and not just to the VFS/buffercache layer.
eric
Bo Moon wrote:
Hi,
What does 2*RAM mean?
His box has 512M RAM, so he need 2*512M
On Tuesday, October 23, 2001 02:19:57 PM -0400 Anne Milicia
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[ great analysis of fragmentation problem + fix ]
So, my question is can journal_mark_freed() be safely skipped when
reiserfs_free_block() is called by __discard_prealloc()? Can you think
of any
Chris Mason wrote:
Anyway, Anne, could you please take a look and make sure this still
improves your performance? I think the odd results you got for 2.4.12
before were probably due to actual fragmentation against prellocated
blocks from other files. With a single writer, 2.4.13 allocates
On Thursday, October 25, 2001 03:06:27 PM -0600 Eric Whiting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is some feedback of 2.4.13+the patch from Chris. Two tests: local
fs and NFS. I still see odd things happening at files above 300G. This
is reiserfs formatted -v2 (3.6) with a default mount (tail).
