Comment 806 for bug 500069

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In , mpartap (mpartap-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

@bes1002t: I think throughput is a different issue than this, although it might well be related.

But most important would be for someone to create a I/O concurrency / latency benchmark. Maybe the Phoronix Test Suite is an adequate tool for that? It can also be used for automatic bisecting..

I clearly remember pre-2.6.18 times where I had a much inferior machine and while gent0o's emerge was compiling stuff in the background with multiple threads, I could browse the web switch between programs and play a HD stream without any hickup or stalling.