From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:59:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Message-Id: <20031114105947.641335f5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <98290000.1068836914@flay> References: <20031112233002.436f5d0c.akpm@osdl.org> <98290000.1068836914@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: > > > > > - Several ext2 and ext3 allocator fixes. These need serious testing on big > > SMP. > > OK, ext3 survived a swatting on the 16-way as well> Great, thanks. > It's still slow as snot, but it does work ;-) I think SDET generates storms of metadata updates. Making the journal larger may help get that idle time down. Probably the default journal size is too small nowadays. Most tests seem to run faster when it is enlarged. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org