Re: Performance problems with millions of inodes

Christoph Litauer
2008-06-26T11:28:58Z

Emmanuel Florac schrieb:
> Le Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:46:30 +0200
> Christoph Litauer <litauer@uni-koblenz.de> écrivait:
>
>>> Maybe the 143 million inodes cause this effect? Any idea how to
>>> avoid it?
>
> Maybe you should try to add a "nobarrier" option at mount on the
> slowest machine. Barriers can slow down operation tremendously...
>

Thanks for this hint. nobarrier improved file creation performance
significantly (about 50 times).