Hi, I would just request that the tests and comments in this thread should be added to the Cyrus wiki.
Kind regards, Tarjei On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 02:46 -0200, Sergio Devojno Bruder wrote: > David Lang wrote: > >(..) > > I was recently doing some testing of lots of small files on the various > > filesystems, and I ran into a huge difference (8x) depending on what > > allocator was used for ext*. the default allocator changed between ext2 > > and ext3 (you can override it as a mount option) and when reading 1M > > files (10 dirs of 10 dirs of 10 dirs of 1000 1K files) the time to read > > them went from ~5 min with the old allocator useed in ext2 to 40 min for > > the one that's the default for ext3. > > > > David Lang > > > (!!) Interesting. You said mount options? man mount man page only show > me data=journal, data=ordered, data=writeback, etcetera. > > How can I change that? > > -- > Sergio Bruder > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- Tarjei Huse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html