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From: khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx (khromy)
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext3-users@redhat.com
Subject: Re: sync slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:40:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020703094031.GA4462@lnuxlab.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020703102244.B2491@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:22:44AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Ugh.  My first guess would be that you have one enormously fragmented
> filesystem.  13MB in 2 minutes?  A modern disk should get that amount
> of data to disk in one second, but massive fragmentation can simply
> kill disk performance.
> 
> If /home is on the same disk, do you get the same problem trying to
> write there?

Yeah, /home/ is on the same disk.  Your guess might be right because
that's what I was trying to show.  When I copy the file, which is in
/home/(hda2) to /tmp/(hda1) and I sync, it takes almost 2 minutes.  But 
if I copy the same file, which is in /home/(hda2) to /usr/local/(hda3),
sync returns immediately.  This disk isn't that old either.

hda: Maxtor 51536U3, ATA DISK drive
hda: 30015216 sectors (15368 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63,
UDMA(66)

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L1:	khromy		;khromy(at)lnuxlab.ath.cx

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-03  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-03  2:20 sync slowness. ext3 on VIA vt82c686b khromy
2002-07-03  2:57 ` khromy
2002-07-03  3:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-03  3:35   ` khromy
2002-07-03  3:57     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-03  4:03       ` khromy
2002-07-03  4:36         ` khromy
2002-07-03 16:29           ` Diego Calleja
2002-07-03 17:25           ` Diego Calleja
2002-07-03 17:43   ` Tomas Szepe
2002-07-03 18:19     ` khromy
2002-07-03 19:05       ` Tomas Szepe
2002-07-03 21:54       ` Rogier Wolff
2002-07-03  9:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-03  9:40   ` khromy [this message]
2002-07-03 10:57     ` Rogier Wolff
2002-07-03 16:38       ` khromy
2002-07-03 11:43     ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207031155080.7491-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-07-03 16:42       ` khromy
2002-07-03 10:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-07-03  5:59   ` khromy

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