On Mar 03, 2002 18:04 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > > 500-9.6K file size distribution (postmark default) > > With this file size, the reiserfs tail code will be a bottleneck. > I'd suggest mounting with -o notail, it makes a huge difference in > my postmark tests.
He already posted numbers with notail (reproduced from the original email below): > >Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >file system create/s transactions/s delete/s > >ext2 692/703/711 405/417/408 2129/27691/27507 > >ext3 264/262/265 238/246/246 469/505/472 > >reiserfs 58/64/58 58/55/59 77/84/76 > >reiserfs notail 77/77/74 81/77/77 120/116/124 > >xfs 958/971/921 227/224/224 222/223/221 What journaling mode did you use for ext3? For mail-type benchmarks, data=journal mode with a large journal works particularly well. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
