On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Antti Harri wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>
> > Another thing is to move to larger block and fragment sizes. Depending
> > on the size distribution of your files, this will waste some space,
> > though.
> >
> > I tested 1TB filesystems with varying block and fragment sizes, and it
> > is really nice to see the speedup of newfs anf fsck.
>
> Thank you for your response but could you tell me some
> examples I could try because I've no idea what kind of values
> to test with newfs?
>
> I already tried `newfs -b 65536 -f 8192 -o time` but I didn't notice
> any speed improvement with `time fsck`.
>
> PS. the machine has 256M of DDR ram, Seagate Barracuda 7200.8
> 200G sata-1 connected to Via VT8237 controller.
Hmmm, I didn't record the numbers. It could be that fsck is swapping
in your case, which will make it very slow. Can your check that?
I'll try to do some measurements with various block and fragment sized
the coming week. That'll take some time, though.
-Otto
