6% fragmentation is enormous. You very much need the repacker we have not yet written.....
remember that one seek and rotate takes ~12 ms, and during that time you could transfer 50MB*.012 bytes..... Hans John Gilmore wrote: >On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:40, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > > >>Please try whether the attached patch improves anything. It simplifies >>fsync by avoid commiting of transactions which do not modify file being >>fsync-ed. >> >>The patch applied to 2.6.14-mm2 with warnings, but that can be ignored. >> >> > >I haven't tried this patch yet, but I did try the earlier 'disable fsync >completely' patch. In fact, I'm using it right now. > >It doesn't help. Therefore, your patch probably won't help either. > >OK, disabling fsync does help a *little* bit. But I think that the issue (for >me, anyway) isn't sync per se, it's just flat-out access time. Deleteing lots >of small files is EXTREMELY slow, but even reading files is slower than it >should be. It took no less that 10 minutes to delete an old kernel source >tree, for instance. > >It's related to fragmentation, I think. I didn't really notice any speed >problems until my hard drive got to about 95% (or so) full. But they haven't >gone away, even though usage is now down around 54%. > >Hrm... I should be able to check that... > > >About an hour later... > >So maybe I was wrong. 6.5% data fragmentation doesn't seem that high. But >19.8% tree fragmentation does seem a bit high. > >How should this data be interpreted? > > >#measurefs.reiser4 -T /dev/mapper/e-h -f >measurefs.reiser4 1.0.5 >Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by >reiser4progs/COPYING. > >Tree fragmentation ... done >0.197747 > >#measurefs.reiser4 -S -D /dev/mapper/e-h -f >measurefs.reiser4 1.0.5 >Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by >reiser4progs/COPYING. > >Data fragmentation ... done >0.065593 >Tree statistics ... done >Packing statistics: > Formatted nodes: 3721.29b (90.85%) > Branch nodes: 1734.57b (42.35%) > Twig nodes: 2886.97b (70.48%) > Leaf nodes: 3814.82b (93.14%) > >Node statistics: > Total nodes: 8543553 > Formatted nodes: 146354 > Unformatted nodes: 8397199 > Branch nodes: 292 > Twig nodes: 10542 > Leaf nodes: 8532719 > >Item statistics: > Total items: 637352 > Nodeptr items: 146353 > Statdata items: 191218 > Direntry items: 17512 > Tail items: 245018 > Extent items: 36869 > > ># > > > >
