Michael Cronenworth wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Things to do this week instead of arguing about mixers > From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 04/28/2009 08:55 AM > >> Florian Festi wrote: >>> Eric Sandeen wrote: >>>> - rpm? (file installation and/or db files?) >>> The rpmdb is a bunch of db4 files. In don't think I want to interfere with >>> the db4 engine... >> They're often badly fragmented, too :) But whether or not that matters >> much for rpm performance, I dunno. >> >> [root@host ~]# filefrag /var/lib/rpm/Packages >> /var/lib/rpm/Packages: 844 extents found, perfection would be 1 extent >> [root@host ~]# ls -lh /var/lib/rpm/Packages >> -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 52M Apr 27 15:40 /var/lib/rpm/Packages > > > Somehow XFS is doing a much better job. This is from a four year old system: > > $ sudo filefrag /var/lib/rpm/Packages > /var/lib/rpm/Packages: 2 extents found > $ ls -lh /var/lib/rpm/Packages > -rw-r--r-- 1 rpm rpm 88M 2009-04-28 10:18 /var/lib/rpm/Packages on my xfs root systems I still have hundreds of extents for this file. Do you have xfs_fsr in a cron job? -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
