Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2005, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID: <426E852A.40904@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504252032500.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> And don't try to make me explain why the patchbomb has any IO time at all,
> it should all have fit in the cache, but I think the writeback logic
> kicked in.

The default log size on ext3 is quite small. Making the log larger probably would have helped.

	-hpa

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