Hello On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 15:11 +0200, Juergen Starek wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I hope this is the right mailing list for my question, if not, please > redirect me. > > I have noticed that if I put my ~ on a ReiserFS partition, Pan (GNOME's > newsreader) starts very slowly, taking about 75 seconds. If I move the > same article cache onto an ext3 partition, Pan starts in less than 10 > seconds. This confuses me, as I've read a lot of benchmarks and comments > on the net which indicate that ReiserFS is faster than ext3 when handling > lots of small files. > > Pan's article cache consists of lots of small files (approx. 70 MB, each > file has only a few kilobytes) and, on my system, it should not be > fragmented too much because I copied the files from an external source > onto the empty volume. >
Probably Pan is stat(2)-ing whole cache. Can you please try to find out what Pan is doing on start? Strace(1) may help. If Pan is doing millions of stats for files from cache - that explains why it starts slowly when cache is stored on reiserfs. > Asking this question on the German Linux newsgroup > de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc[1] didn't lead to any hints about diagnosing > this behaviour. Any ideas? > > Many thanks in advance > > Jürgen > > [1] > http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc/browse_thread/thread/d60014be503abebd/ > >
