This can easily be explained by seek time. If you have a 3GB partition on a 300GB disk, you are only using 1% of the surface of your disk. During the test on a smaller partition, head doesn't have to move as far as it does with the larger partition. Charles On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 22:09, M K wrote: > Has anyone experienced a significant degradation in ext3 performance > when using it on a Multi-TeraByte RAID? As part of an experimental > setup, I hooked up three 300GB drives and made an EXT3 RAID5 out of > them, using the entire space one each drive, and started throwing a > large number of files in the size-range 3KB to 50 KB. Then, I deleted > the raid, and created a new one, but this time, I used only 3 Gigs > from each drive (a very small RAID compared to the earlier one). After > repeating the same test, a huge improvement in performance was see - > hence, the question : does ext3 performance degrade significantly as > the file system size increases? > > Thanks in Advance, > MK > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
