On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:19:00 +0100 Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 14:47, Shyamal Prasad wrote: | > What kind of application is it that is "way too slow" with ext2? I use | > ext3 with an 80G drive and it is never slow. ext2 should've been | > faster. I can recommend ext3 as a good choice, it works great for me. | > | > Perhaps you don't have DMA turned on? | | If you have an application that needs to pull lots of data really fast (using | directio) for long periods of time, you really should be using XFS. We tested | a load of filesystems where i am working and only xfs got the throuput we | needed (~430MB/s off a raid array) whereas the best ext3 and reiser (might | not have been reiser4 though) could get was about 350MB/s | | Tom | Uuuhh, /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.17 seconds =752.94 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.47 seconds = 43.54 MB/sec mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
