From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Artur_Mak=F3wka?= Subject: Re: More Slowdown - testscript [noatime,nodiratime] Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:13:39 +0100 Message-ID: <43859253.1050900@ursynow.2a.pl> References: <437CBC63.3050202@namesys.com> <43820CAD.3090605@namesys.com> <20051121210136.GA25708@favonius> <4383677F.8060106@namesys.com> <3aa654a40511221127x68d059c5hfdfd4254aec0e1b5@mail.gmail.com> <1132709496.7650.24.camel@teratron.lan.etheus.net> <1132710424.7328.7.camel@teratron.lan.etheus.net> <1132777409.7458.8.camel@teratron.lan.etheus.net> <43854668.8010000@namesys.com> <20051124074909.GB8307@favonius> <3aa654a40511240141u770c657br18fe2cd618c4f479@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3aa654a40511240141u770c657br18fe2cd618c4f479@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Avuton Olrich wrote: > On 11/23/05, Sander wrote: >> Please don't forget that the behavior without 'noatime' is new. I never >> had my disk mounted 'noatime', and until recently did not experience the >> huge slowdown. I assume the other people who reported this agree. >> >> So whether or not fsync needs to be optimized, something changed in >> Reiser4 or -mm that causes the huge slowdown. > > Agreed, I have mounted with noatime nodiratime and still get time when > interactivity is extremely poor. Mostly with the vim test. I'm not > sure the problem is /fixed/ but it does seem much better. > I also agree, i see improvement, but there was a time when noatime nodiratime wasn't needed to not cause slowdowns. But i'm sure i will leave noatime/nodiratime set to off anyways, as this is mot much useful for me.