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