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From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
To: <rob@robspanton.com>, <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Performance Issues
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:05:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541C464F.3030600@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411129114.1811.7.camel@zarniwoop.blob>

On 09/19/2014 08:18 AM, Rob Spanton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a particularly uncomplicated setup (a desktop PC with a hard
> disk) and I'm seeing particularly slow performance from btrfs.  A `git
> status` in the linux source tree takes about 46 seconds after dropping
> caches, whereas on other machines using ext4 this takes about 13s.  My
> mail client (evolution) also seems to perform particularly poorly on
> this setup, and my hunch is that it's spending a lot of time waiting on
> the filesystem.
>

Weird, I get the exact opposite performance.  Anyway it's probably 
because of your file layouts, try defragging your git dir and see if 
that helps.  Thanks,

Josef

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-19 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-19 12:18 Performance Issues Rob Spanton
2014-09-19 12:25 ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2014-09-19 12:58   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-09-19 12:49 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-09-19 12:59   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-09-19 13:34 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-09-22 11:59   ` David Sterba
2014-09-22 12:37     ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-09-22 13:25       ` David Sterba
2014-09-19 13:51 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-09-19 14:53   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-09-19 16:23     ` Holger Hoffstätte
2014-09-19 17:51   ` Zach Brown
2014-09-20  8:23   ` Marc Dietrich
2014-09-20 13:41     ` Martin
2014-09-20 18:29       ` Chris Murphy
2014-09-20 14:04     ` Wang Shilong
2014-09-20 20:44       ` Marc Dietrich
2014-09-19 15:05 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2014-09-19 16:51   ` Rob Spanton
2014-09-19 17:45     ` Josef Bacik
2014-10-30 14:23       ` Rob Spanton
2014-09-20  5:58     ` Duncan

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