On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 14:38, Kevin Anderson wrote: [snip] > > Can you rerun the ext3 numbers to the same storage as GFS? Would also > be interesting to run from two nodes simultaneously to separate ext3 > filesystems on the storage as well? Doing dd's of the logical > partitions would also be interesting to see what bandwidth the storage > is capable of providing, first single node then simultaneous from both > nodes. > Partial ext3 results: ext3 on 5 disk stripe ===================== time tar xf /Views/linux-2.6.8.1.tar; time sync real 0m5.221s user 0m0.442s sys 0m4.238s real 0m8.214s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.390s (1st time)time du -s linux-2.6.8.1/ 226916 linux-2.6.8.1/ real 0m2.888s user 0m0.035s sys 0m0.288s time rm -rf linux-2.6.8.1/ real 0m2.131s user 0m0.022s sys 0m0.821s data=writeback -------------- time tar xf /Views/linux-2.6.8.1.tar; time sync real 0m5.443s user 0m0.439s sys 0m4.056s real 0m8.774s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.388s time rm -rf linux-2.6.8.1/; time sync real 0m1.127s user 0m0.035s sys 0m1.012s time du -s linux-2.6.8.1/ 226916 linux-2.6.8.1/ real 0m2.741s user 0m0.058s sys 0m0.281s data=log ======== time rm -rf linux-2.6.8.1/; time sync real 0m2.106s user 0m0.024s sys 0m0.824s time du -s linux-2.6.8.1/ 226916 linux-2.6.8.1/ real 0m2.738s user 0m0.025s sys 0m0.312s time tar xf /Views/linux-2.6.8.1.tar; time sync real 0m22.784s user 0m0.445s sys 0m4.639s real 0m1.234s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.248s Daniel