From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] ext2 vs ext3 on hppa Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:47:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20050211174752.GC8835@colo.lackof.org> References: <20050211071629.GA32318@colo.lackof.org> <420CAE3C.7090004@lycos.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org To: Corn? Beerse Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <420CAE3C.7090004@lycos.nl> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:08:12PM +0100, Corn? Beerse wrote: ... > >In a nut shell, I timed unpacking the linux source tree: > > > >FS real user sys > >ext2 2m10.814s 0m53.424s 0m6.084s > >ext3 3m46.577s 0m54.619s 1m34.553s > >xfs 1m22.205s 0m53.952s 0m9.739s > >md0+xfs 1m27.740s 0m54.550s 0m12.885s ... > It would be nice if you can give similar stats for different architectures, > either within pa-risc or even on other platforms. Sorry, who ever is interested in that comparison can provide that data. :^) > I don't know what you mean by mdstripping, If it is something like raid-0 > or raid-1 (or the combination) then striping is only faster on reading, not > on writing. Yes, I meant raid0. > You'd definitly also peek at reiserfs, Its the default fs used in SuSE > linux. That sounds like an excercise for someone else. > If you intend to re-do your tests, think about the next: To test read > speed, `cp -r` to /dev/null. To test write speed of small files, tar from > the fastest read-system. (for large files, just copy from /dev/zero). ok. My guess was with 4GB of RAM, I was mostly operating from buffer cache. Maybe next time I'll use ram disks instead. > >BTW, I get segfaults on the ext3. > > Thats a bad sign... My bad. I was running two instances of "make" in the same source tree. I had forgotten about the "while :" loop that was doing builds. /me hides thanks, grant _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux