On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 08:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I read somewhere that reiserfs is faster then ext3 on small file > > deletion/creation. > > Typical mail load. > > On a high load site, would type of file system really matter? > > The testing in "sendmail Performance Tuning" indicates that ext3 is > faster. Even ext2 is faster than Reiser. See section 3.3.3, pgs. 42-43. >
That doesn't mesh with anything I've seen. The directories where the file creation/deletion happened must have been tiny so the overhead from reiser indexing was more than the linear scan with the inode locked that you get with ext*. If you accumulate more than a few hundred files in a single directory (queues, quarantine dir, maildirs, etc.) reiserfs will be faster. There is a benchmark program here: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3022.html that attempts to simulate mail handling. --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
