On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:56:10PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > Bruce, how much memory did you have in your > system? Do you have a large amount of memory, say 6-8 gigs, by any > chance? The test system has 1.5GB RAM. > One thing is clear --- we need to rethink our block and inode > allocation algorithms in light of delayed allocation. Maybe XFS has > some tricks up its sleeve that we can learn from? Just so I am clear as well, I fully realize this is quite an artifical benchmark. I asked about it because of how large the regression is. I deal with many systems that typically have to handle creating and unlinking large numbers of small files (mail servers). They all are running ext3 now, but I am considering switching them to ext4 once 2.6.28 is out. As such my big concern is that this regression will cause performance problems for them. -- Bruce Guenter <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://untroubled.org/
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