Ann Harrison wrote:

> At 10:44 AM 2/5/2001 +0300, Dmitry Kuzmenko wrote:
>
>
>> I've tested NO_BUFFERING ... So, it will be too complex to
>> understand what performance user will got on his configuration
>> setting NO_BUFFERING flag.
>>
>> If anybody interested, I can make a table with test results,
>> but it was made on IDE drive. I'm sure that on SCSI drive there will
>> be another results (very different from IDE).
>
>
> I'd like to see the results. More than that, I'd like to see
> the results on a variety of drives & configurations, hoping to
> find some pattern to the results.
>

I'd be interested as well in seeing the results, and also I think
interested in the test scripts, one thing we are missing is general
load tests, and this might prove a good place to start.


On another note, although not suitable for end users I think it might
not be a bad idea to have some of these things available via switches to
developers in a debug build.

Real programmers like to live on the edge ;-).


Cheers

Mark