Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 6:44 AM Petr Lautrbach <plaut...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> Dan Čermák <dan.cer...@cgc-instruments.de> writes: >> > >> > Just out of curiosity, how large is the speedup typically? >> > > >> >> It depends on the number of threads your machine has. But you could get some >> data for comparison using `fixfiles -T 1 restore` and `fixfiles -T 0 >> restore` on a running system. The following times are reported on my >> workstation: >> > > Has anyone run such a test on a system using > classic ("spinning rust") HDDs? It is sometimes > the case that parallelizing activities that are I/O > intensive can result in excessive seek activity > that can result in rather elongated elapsed times > (much worse than single threaded operation).
We have only one machine with a rotary HDD and 4 threads: # for T in 1 0 4; do chcon -R -t root_t /etc/bad-label/; sync; for i in $(seq 1 3); do echo $i > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; done; echo -T $T; time fixfiles -F -T $T restore; done -T 1 real 3m32,046s user 2m0,068s sys 0m24,005s -T 0 real 2m32,859s user 2m9,265s sys 0m26,775s -T 4 real 2m38,355s user 2m9,695s sys 0m27,042s Petr _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure