Re: what do you do that stresses your filesystem?

["Philipp Gühring" <p.guehring@futureware.at>]

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Hi,

> Booting the machine seems like one activity that many users end up
> waiting on the FS for.  Yes?

Yes, I think this is the "Linux factor". Seeing how long booting needs. 
(Although I think that timeouts like the SCSI initialisation or non-existing 
DHCP servers need far more time than optimizing the filesystem could ever 
give)

> Starting up complex and big applications like xemacs and mozilla would
> be another.  Yes?

Yes, especially have a look at KDE. 
(They have a longstanding performance discussion with all the shared 
libraries, ...)

> Others?

I am currently thinking about multi-dimensional region search 
(Sedgewick, "Algorithms in C", chapter 26 in the german edition), and how 
something similar could be implemented on ReiserFS.
I am currently developing a Location-Based-Service application on top of my 
IVI::DB (XML-ReiserFS database), and having 3-dimensional region searches is 
the primary service, my application has to provide.

At first, I wanted to implement Sedgewick's algorithm completely in RAM, but 
now the requirements changed, and I have to do it in the filesystem, and I 
calculate with 30000 queries per minute.

Many greetings,
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~ Philipp Gühring              p.guehring@futureware.at
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