On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:21:46PM -0600, kwijibo@zianet.com wrote:
It looks like htree improves performance when the storage device is
local (as per my previous post) but it looks like htree degrades
performance when used in conjunction with NFS. I am going to try it
with gigabit ethernet when I get the time to see if maybe I am
possibly hitting some sort of weird network bottleneck.
That's certainly a surprising result.
Any chance you could get an ethereal capture of the traffic between the NFS client and server, both with and without htree? It might shed some light on what's going on, and perhaps suggest some way we can either fix the NFS server, or the interaction between the NFS server and the ext3 filesystem.
- Ted
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Yeah, I was a bit surprised as well, I ran one of the tests again cause I thought I screwed it up. Can someone else do this to confirm what I am seeing?
You want the full packets or just the headers? It is going to be a big chunk of data with the full packets. It takes about an hour or so for Postmark to run with the settings I have it at. I can reduce the number of files to possibly speed things up and produce a smaller dump. About where is the threshold on where normal ext3 starts to crawl with large numbers of files in a directory?
Steve
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