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<P><FONT face=Arial>Hello all,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>finally we are!!!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>With 2.4.0-test8 we overcome (in my configuration at least)
the 2.2.14 in disk performance.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>MB: Supermicro P6SBU (Adaptec 7890 on board)<BR>CPU: 1
pentium III 500 MHz<BR>Mem: 128Mb<BR><BR>1x9.1Gb IBM DNES-309170W disk on
fast/se channel<BR>4x18.2Gb IBM DNES-318350W on ultra2 channel<BR>The 18.2 Gb
disks are in raid0+1 software (md0 is raid0 of two, md1 for the other
two and md2 raid 1 of md0 and md1).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>This is the output of bonnie in 2.2.14 (excuse me for the
format of output):</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Version 1.00 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential
Input- --Random-</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Machine MB K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP
/sec %CP</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Unknown 1000 7607 96 29971 32 10326 23 8090 98 24738 25 nan
-2147483648</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec
%CP</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>30 169 97 568 99 6000 97 170 97 718 99 337 46</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Unknown,1000,7607,96,29971,32,10326,23,8090,98,24738,25,
nan,-2147483648,30,169,97,568,99,6000,97,170,97,718,99,337,46</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>240.88user 557.77system 17:18.92elapsed 76%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>0inputs+0outputs (791342major+339minor)pagefaults
14swaps</FONT></P>
<P> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>And this is for 2.4.0-test8:</FONT></P><FONT size=2>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Version 1.00 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential
Input- --Random-</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Machine MB K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP
/sec %CP</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Unknown 1000 7900 94 25498 20 11919 17 8579 98 31277 30 nan
-2147483648</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec
%CP</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>30 179 99 +++++ 87 9849 99 181 99 +++++ 102 1270
99</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Unknown,1000,7900,94,25498,20,11919,17,8579,98,31277,30,
nan,-2147483648,30,179,99,+++++,87,9849,99,181,99,+++++,102,1270,99</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>227.46user 414.99system 13:35.17elapsed 78%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>0inputs+0outputs (196major+322minor)pagefaults 0swaps
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>A dd of 512Mb takes about 49secs from the raid filesystem to
itself!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Long life to Linux! And to you all (don't touch your
8...)!</FONT></P>
<P> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>PS: I will check also behaviour with applications (Oracle
8iR2 and Dev 6i for Linux)...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>bye </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Gianluca</FONT></P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>