Paul Archer wrote on Tue Sep 12, 2006 um 11:15:43AM: > I think the OP was saying he had bad performance specifically on debian, Yes and no, I don't know. Seems strange that I have not discovered this problem when testing on FC5. > > > >When you get a cache miss, you pay a penalty for doing a lookup in the > >cache, > >as you then have to create various directories and a file and slap xattrs > >on > >them. Are you talking about cold cache only? But should you also have a performance loss with small files and a hot cache?