Hi Helge,
Thanks for testing it out.
I'll check it when I have time(I'll be out for a week...).
Wu
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:07:16PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Many have noticed positive sides of the new readahead system.
> I too see that, bootup is quicker and starting a big app like firefox is
> also noticeable faster.
>
> I made my own little io-intensive test, that shows a case where
> performance drops.
>
> I boot the machine, and starts "debsums", a debian utility that
> checksums every file managed by debian package management.
> As soon as the machine starts swapping, I also start
> start a process that applies an mm-patch to the kernel tree, and
> times this.
>
> This patching took 1m28s with cold cache, without debsums running.
> With the 2.6.15 kernel (old readahead), and debsums running, this
> took 2m20s to complete, and 360kB in swap at the worst.
>
> With the new readahead in 2.6.17-mm3 I get 6m22s for patching,
> and 22MB in swap at the most. Runs with mm1 and mm2 were
> similiar, 5-6 minutes patching and 22MB swap.
>
> My patching clearly takes more times this way. I don't know
> if debsums improved though, it could be as simple as a fairness
> issue. Memory pressure definitely went up.
>
>
> Helge Hafting
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