On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:09:00PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Gabriel G. Rosa ([email protected]): > > > I find the argument of journal overhead to be about as relevant in a > > modern machine as the argument of software RAID overhead. That is to say, > > not at all. > > This line of thought isn't going to fly among system administrators, at > least. ext2 has always been really valuable as a really fast operating > system, ext3, even used with well selected journal options, is merely > very good. In situations where performance matters -- and where a > journal is not essential -- the choice matters. > > And even on my own servers, which are fundamentally bottlnecked on > outbound bandwidth rather than disk, I'd rather not lose easy > performance gains. > > > I think Bill's point is that swap spindle optimization is become largely > > irrelevant with cheap and abundant RAM. > > Again, this is not a compelling argument for sysadmins, or anyone else > who takes pride in getting easy gains of performance where they are > available. > > > You can argue it's not a lot of extra work to set up, but it's also > > not a lot of gains to be had over time. > > You have probably not seen systems thrashing for lack of it. >
Note that the OP was talking about his wife's desktop system, not high performance servers. -G _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
