On 3/18/11 3:57 AM, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I'm seeing more and more mkdir performance problems. > > On the big partition where I most often NEED the performance an > strace -tttT mkdir asdlkfj results in: > > 1300437461.968657 mkdir("asdklfj", 0777) = 0 <0.065133> > > On my homedir (older machine) the same mkdir is a lot faster: > > 1300437428.294018 mkdir("asdklfj", 0777) = 0 <0.003813> > > Only 3 milliseconds. Ten times faster! That would be great! Did you have a chance to play with that patch I flung onto the list? :) -Eric > On my local workstation I get: > > 1300437803.200227 mkdir("askldjf", 0777) = 0 <0.000092> > > 92 microseconds. even 30 times faster than that! > > That 65 milliseconds. For just one it's not that bad. Not even > noticable. In my current (data-recovery) project I have (/ my client > has) about 30000 directories. This means that to do the recovery I > wait an additional 32 minutes just for all the mkdirs. > > But I'm not waiting just once for "all the mkdirs". During the course > of a datarecovery I reconstruct the tree many times over, making > backups of the current state over and over again. In this project I've > been waiting that half hour over ten times, so it's cost me over 5 > hours in productivity. > > IIRC, a fix was available, right? > > To "fix" this, all I need to do is to switch to the most recent > kernel, right? Or was the fix not yet integrated with Linus? > > Roger. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html