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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: New to reiserfs
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 00:57:07 +0400
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Dieter N=FCtzel wrote:

>On Monday 13 May 2002 10:07, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>>>4.- I have a PIII 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, SCSI server where I run sendmail,
>>>>bind and squid. Will I have problems with performance if I migrate to
>>>>reiserfs?
>>>>
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>>sendmail will be lower in performance when using reiserfs unless you use =

>>the latest not yet released patches and turned data journaling on.
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>More speed numbers on this to come with related post.
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>>Do you really push the performance limits of the machine as a mail server?
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>You mean if it is worth?
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>>squid will benefit from your putting all files in one directory.
>>   =20
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>So I should clobber my squid partition/dir and reconfigure to put all file=
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>into only one directory and let the squid hierarchy alone?
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>Thanks,
>	Dieter
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> =20
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I don't understand you. =20

You should put squid into one big directory (not using their kludge that=20
avoids making directories too large by using a tree)  unless you have=20
multiple processors (in which case the VFS directory giant lock will=20
hurt you).

Hans