On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:56:56PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 20.08.2013, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: > > > Thanks for the pointer. I add to the mix my test results for > > F19 with kernel 3.10.7 on an ASUS UX31E with its factory 256GB > > SSD-only mass storage. > > > > CFQ scheduler run1: > [....] > > All these numbers are pointless, because when I see > your results I'm quite shure you did run the test without > generating loads of disk I/O in parallel. What you actually > measured is the latency in idle state ;-) > > Open a console and run > > while : ; do time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=8M count=256 ; sync; rm bigfile"; done > > Then, open another one and run fsync-tester. The numbers > that count to compare different elevators on your system > is the output fsync-tester generates while your machine is > generating the "bigfile". Thanks Heinz! Indeed, I took every precaution to leave the machine still. :-) Here are the program numbers while running the script: CFQ: write time: 0.0010s fsync time: 0.8647s write time: 0.1340s fsync time: 3.1220s write time: 2.1435s fsync time: 2.8134s write time: 0.1458s fsync time: 8.3726s write time: 0.0005s fsync time: 1.0401s write time: 0.0175s fsync time: 1.0270s write time: 4.0406s fsync time: 0.0321s write time: 0.0005s fsync time: 4.8683s write time: 0.0004s fsync time: 0.3178s Deadline run1: write time: 0.0009s fsync time: 82.3477s Deadline run2: write time: 0.0007s fsync time: 659.2289s Noop: I give up after waiting for more than 20' to see even the first measurement. As a side note, with deadline and noop schedulers the test can take a LOT to complete and often lock for tens of seconds other programs that make mild accesses to disk (e.g., vim writing this email or unhiding/hiding MATE panel). This happened also in previous tests, run without additional load, but then the tests did complete in a reasonable amount of time. Mihai -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org