Comment 339 for bug 595047

ASUS P5K
linux suse 2.6.29-53-default x86_64

# cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
MemTotal: 8196428 kB

# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i "Model name" | uniq
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz

# cat /proc/mounts | grep ' /home '
/dev/sda3 /home xfs rw,attr2,noquota 0 0

# hdparm -i /dev/sda
Model=ST31000340AS /* Seagate SATA2 */
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6

~> dd if=/dev/zero of=./bigfile bs=1M count=5000 & ./fsync-tester
[1] 5346
setting up random write file
5000+0 records in
5000+0 records out
5242880000 bytes (5.2 GB) copied, 90.9677 s, 57.6 MB/s
done setting up random write file
starting fsync run
starting random io!
fsync time: 1.0965s
fsync time: 0.4574s
fsync time: 0.7729s
fsync time: 0.3746s
fsync time: 0.5232s
fsync time: 0.1928s
fsync time: 0.9374s
fsync time: 0.6353s
fsync time: 0.3625s
fsync time: 0.4970s
fsync time: 0.3150s
run done 11 fsyncs total, killing random writer
[1]+ Done dd if=/dev/zero of=./bigfile bs=1M count=5000

~> vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
 1 13 0 38868 164 7778824 0 0 12 23407 959 1940 1 3 0 95
 1 13 0 47144 164 7770084 0 0 0 26260 1435 2732 2 3 0 95
 0 13 0 39740 164 7774280 0 0 60 30724 1534 2860 2 4 0 94
 0 13 0 41124 164 7776080 0 0 0 13888 1103 2038 2 3 0 95
 0 13 0 42460 164 7768056 0 0 0 52248 1320 2334 2 3 0 95
 1 13 0 40456 164 7776908 0 0 0 3028 1058 1934 2 3 0 95

At the moment of performance of the test operation with graphic interface KDE is impossible