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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Dirk Mueller <dmuell@gmx.net>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
	reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS seems to be stable as of 2.4.4
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:19:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF5EA03.5D92B2E6@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010504182357.A20214@rotes20.wohnheim.uni-kl.de> <341650000.988994279@tiny> <20010504192348.A11507@rotes20.wohnheim.uni-kl.de>

Dirk Mueller wrote:

>
> Now consider a good amount of fragmentation because those files get created
> over time (weeks, months etc). and you quickly degenerade to a scanning
> speed of maybe 10-20 files per second (Athlon 800, IBM 60GB HD with roughly
> 35MB/s linear read). It was that horrible that I quickly returned to mbox
> for those lists with high amount of traffic.

I think only a repacker can properly cure performance problems of slowly
accumulating files and directories .  September 2002.

We can do other things that will gain 5 percent here and there, but the repacker
will be the real cure.

Hans


           reply	other threads:[~2001-05-06 22:26 UTC|newest]

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