Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:15:06 -0700

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