On Tuesday 29 October 2002 14:14, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> On a dual PIII-550 with 512 MB of memory, ext3, and a RAID-0+1 (four 40G
> 7200rpm IBM IDE Deathstar disks, 64k chunk-size on the RAID-0), I get:
>
> $ time for i in {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; do mkdir $i; for j in
> {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=$j/$i
> bs=1k count=4; done done
>
> real 0m5.024s
>
> So, 5 seconds for writing one thousand 4 kb files *sequentially*.
>
> Note that I only put 100 files in each directory - if I put 1000 files
> in one directory, performance would degrade (more significantly when the
> number is, say, 10000).
Dear Jakob,
for a start I have set my "baseline" measurement: using a 10000 rpm IBM
Ultrastar with Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
with 512Mb RAM and PIII-800 I can create 1000 4kb files
in one directory (this case is what is going to happen in the real
application) in abou 8secs using this:
--
#!/bin/sh
i=1
while [ $i -le 1000 ]
do
echo $i
dd if=/dev/zero of=file_$i bs=1k count=4
i=`expr $i + 1`
done
exit 0
--
$ time sh write.sh
...
real 0m8.388s
user 0m4.037s
sys 0m3.834s
writing 10.000 files gives instead
$ time sh write.sh
real 1m46.499s
user 0m40.096s
sys 1m0.400s
so a 10-folds increase of number of files gives about
a 12-fold increase in "real" time ...
I will play next with journaling mode (using data=ordered now)
and post outcome here: thanks for your comments so far !
antonello
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