From: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Horrible btrfs performance on cold cache
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:46:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286811979.9645.5.camel@ayu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin8mAaHz_PypS9j4vQ35WozgD==U493e3OW_sy2@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 03:30 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use btrfs on most of my volumes on my laptop, and I've always felt
> booting was very slow, but definitely sure is slow, is starting up
> Google Chrome:
>
> encrypted ext4: ~20s
> btrfs: ~2:11s
>
> I have tried different things to find out exactly what is the issue,
> but haven't quite found it yet.
If you've been using this volume for a while, it could just have become
badly fragmented. You could try btrfs's fancy online defragmentation
abilities to see if that'll give you an improvement:
# btrfs filesystem defragment /mountpoint/of/volume
Let us know if that helps, of course :)
--
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-11 0:30 Horrible btrfs performance on cold cache Felipe Contreras
2010-10-11 15:46 ` Calvin Walton [this message]
2010-10-11 16:24 ` Chester
2010-10-11 16:24 ` Chester
[not found] ` <AANLkTinQQ0Y4TcRQdRhLgeBJTcvbRyiaxxHuSeh2F0Pp@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-11 19:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-10-11 21:01 ` Felipe Contreras
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