On Sunday, March 03, 2002 09:30:06 PM -0700 Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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):
Ouch, sorry ray, for some reason I only saw the first reiserfs line.
I suspect it has something to do with the number of sub directories,
but that is a wild guess. I'll try to reproduce.
How slow are those scsi disks? I don't think data=journal will help
ext3 here, unless you've changed postmark to fsync.
-chris
