On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:11:05PM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Summary: Two CentOS 5.4 servers, one deployed Dec 2009, the other > April 2010. mkfs.ext3 performance differs wildly. e2fsprogs package > version is identical but the mkfs.ext3 binaries are different (but > identical in size). > > I've already posted to the CentOS users mailing list... Any > suggestions how else I could track this down? > > Version numbers are identical but binaries different: > > e2fsprogs RPM is e2fsprogs-1.39-23.el5 on both systems > mkfs --version reports "util-linux 2.13-pre7" on both systems > mkfs -V reports the same on both systems (mke2fs 1.3 (29-May-2006) > Using EXT2FS Library version 1.39) > file size on mkfs and mkfs.ext3 binaries is identical > > However, checksum on these binaries differs across servers, and "cmp" > reports files are different
Shot in the dark - maybe one system is running prelink, and the other is not? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelink I don't really see how that would affect speeds other than the initial load of the binary though.... so it doesn't really explain the 13 mkfs. -jkl _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
