On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:33, Eric Blossom wrote: > > I was burned by ext3 with regard to streaming disk throughput. > > I ended up remounting the relevant filesystem as ext2 to avoid the > > problem. I have no info regarding CPU and/or preemption issues during > > journal posting. If we never go to the disk, it might not matter at > > all. > > Our box here is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with the PCIe PERC 4e/Di U320 hardware > RAID controller. The data drive is a RAID0 of 4 146GB 10K RPM U320 drives, > and sustains, with ext3, over 140MB/s. We have successfully recorded 2 hours > at 32MB/s without any known issues. Need to test further, though.
That's good throughput. My tests were about three years ago, so perhaps the problem's been addressed in the meanwhile. > > I installed the Reiser FS on my new laptop. I'll let you know if I > > see anything hinky. Haven't tried XFS. I suspect it's OK. > > SGI built truely *monstrous* media servers using it. > > Be careful which XFS version you use. The 2.6 kernel-supplied XFS code has > some problems, and you really need the latest SGI code instead. The CentOS 4 > group is working on an XFS-enabled kernel with the newer code. Not sure > where SuSE and Ubuntu/Debian stand. Thanks for the advise ;) Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
