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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>


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ 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
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTinQQ0Y4TcRQdRhLgeBJTcvbRyiaxxHuSeh2F0Pp@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-11 19:16     ` Felipe Contreras
2010-10-11 21:01   ` Felipe Contreras

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