On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:49, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Unfortunality I even don't have an idea how to interprete those numbers. >
Well, on 2.6, you've got one or more pdflush daemons that might contribute to the load as well. > > > > Do you have any ideas how we could improve 2.4.x? > > > > 2.6.6-mm has a few key improvements. There's less metadata > > fragmentation thanks to some block allocator fixes. More importantly, > > during the rm, metadata blocks are read in 16 at a time instead of 1 at > > a time. I'd be happy to give someone pointers on porting the metadata > > readahead bits back to 2.4. > > I certainly have neither the knowledge nor the time to do that. > I'd suggest contacting namesys. Really all the patch needs is some reject / fuzz resolution and testing. -chris
