Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-13 Thread Petru Paler
> > It would be great if you could do it, but beware that you will be > > benchmarking a lot of overhead if you only plan to measure storage > > performance. Why not use ZODB directly ? > > If I talk HTTP, it measures things fully - Python's interpreter lock > will mean a storage system written i

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-12 Thread Stuart 'Zen' Bishop
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Petru Paler wrote: > > I'd love some sort of benchmarking tool for this (and posibly other > > Storages). I guess the best way would a python script that uses urllib. > > Something that would algorithmically pump up the DB to > 1GB in size > > and retrieve the URL's. Any volu

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-09 Thread Petru Paler
> I'd love some sort of benchmarking tool for this (and posibly other > Storages). I guess the best way would a python script that uses urllib. > Something that would algorithmically pump up the DB to > 1GB in size > and retrieve the URL's. Any volunteers or am I doing it in my > copious spare ti

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Stuart 'Zen' Bishop
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Petru Paler wrote: > Comments ? Suggestions ? > > PS: a new DirectoryStorage release will be done today, with bugfixes and > new features. I'd love some sort of benchmarking tool for this (and posibly other Storages). I guess the best way would a python script that uses url

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Michel Pelletier
Jimmie Houchin wrote: > > From my naive understanding, would this help with the problem ZODB has > with regard to folders with many objects? Would a person who is using > DirectoryStorage not necessarily be required to partition their objects > into an artificially derived hierarchical directory

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Jason Spisak
Petru Paler writes: > > >Glad you find it interesting :) > > > > Very. I think the line between FileSYstem and Database gets more blurred > > every day. > > That's what Hans Reiser says all the time :) > > > Thanks for the heads up. I have to patch my kernel up to 2.2.11 first, > > then

RE: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Petru Paler
> I don't have the two on comparable machines :-( > > Do you have a standard benchmark for comparing the relative performance > FileStorage/DirectoryStorage on reiser fs? Not yet. I have been using a script which just creates/retrieves objects from the ODB but I guess something more serious

RE: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Toby Dickenson
I don't have the two on comparable machines :-( Do you have a standard benchmark for comparing the relative performance FileStorage/DirectoryStorage on reiser fs? > > M. I suspect NTs heavier file security checks will prove to be a > > significant disadvantage - benchmarks to follow. > >

RE: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Petru Paler
> M. I suspect NTs heavier file security checks will prove to be a > significant disadvantage - benchmarks to follow. If you do benchmarks, you should do them comparing DirectoryStorage/NTFS to DirectoryStorage/reiserfs, because (at least at mass object creation) DirectoryStorage is slower

RE: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Toby Dickenson
> The version I sent to the list assumes a '/' directory > separator. I'm > releasing a fixed version (a snapshot of my working code) in > a couple of > seconds. Thats fine on windows too (a backslash is only required on the standard command line, but everywhere else a / is ok too) > I

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Petru Paler
> > Hello all, > > > > You probably saw my yesterday post with the first alpha of > >ReiserStorage. > > Woohoo! > > Id like to try this on NT with NTFS too (which has similar performance > characteristics with big directories and small files). Do you think > this is worth a try, or do

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Petru Paler
> From my naive understanding, would this help with the problem ZODB has > with regard to folders with many objects? Would a person who is using > DirectoryStorage not necessarily be required to partition their objects > into an artificially derived hierarchical directory structure? No, these

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-08 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:00:31 +0300 (EEST), Petru Paler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > You probably saw my yesterday post with the first alpha of >ReiserStorage. Woohoo! Id like to try this on NT with NTFS too (which has similar performance characteristics with big directo

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-07 Thread Jimmie Houchin
>From my naive understanding, would this help with the problem ZODB has with regard to folders with many objects? Would a person who is using DirectoryStorage not necessarily be required to partition their objects into an artificially derived hierarchical directory structure? In other words can i

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-07 Thread Petru Paler
> >Glad you find it interesting :) > > Very. I think the line between FileSYstem and Database gets more blurred > every day. That's what Hans Reiser says all the time :) > Thanks for the heads up. I have to patch my kernel up to 2.2.11 first, > then I'll be recompiling, then creating. I

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-07 Thread Jason Spisak
Petru Paler writes: > > This is the embodiment of my MutliFileStorage thingy on Jim's ZODB Wiki. I > >Oops, didn't saw the ZODB Wiki until now :) > > > droped it (Never picked it up) when Mountable Storage was announced. I'll > > create a ReierFS partition some time this week and try it o

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-07 Thread Petru Paler
> This is the embodiment of my MutliFileStorage thingy on Jim's ZODB Wiki. I Oops, didn't saw the ZODB Wiki until now :) > droped it (Never picked it up) when Mountable Storage was announced. I'll > create a ReierFS partition some time this week and try it out. Excellent! Glad you find

Re: [Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-07 Thread Jason Spisak
Petru Paler: This is the embodiment of my MutliFileStorage thingy on Jim's ZODB Wiki. I droped it (Never picked it up) when Mountable Storage was announced. I'll create a ReierFS partition some time this week and try it out. Excellent! > Hello all, > >You probably saw my yester

[Zope-dev] Request for comments: Directory storage

2000-06-07 Thread Petru Paler
Hello all, You probably saw my yesterday post with the first alpha of ReiserStorage. One of the questions that people tend to ask about it is wheter they can use it without reiserfs. There are two problems with not using reiserfs: 1. ReiserStorage (now renamed to DirectoryStorage