On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:27:27PM +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote:
> I ran tests that I think are similar to what Jason ran on identically
> configured FreeBSD and Linux/ReiserFS machines. ResierFS is much much
> faster than UFS+softupdates on these tests.
>
> Linux (2.2.14-5 + ReiserFS):
> Time:
> 164 seconds total
> 97 seconds of transactions (103 per second)
>
> Files:
> 65052 created (396 per second)
> Creation alone: 60000 files (1090 per second)
> Mixed with transactions: 5052 files (52 per second)
> 4936 read (50 per second)
> 5063 appended (52 per second)
> 65052 deleted (396 per second)
> Deletion alone: 60104 files (5008 per second)
> Mixed with transactions: 4948 files (51 per second)
>
> Data:
> 24.83 megabytes read (155.01 kilobytes per second)
> 336.87 megabytes written (2.05 megabytes per second)
>
> FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (ufs/softupdates):
Did you enable write caching? You didn't mention, and it's off by
default in 4.3, but I think enabled by default on Linux.
Kris
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