On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 04:30, Grant Miner wrote: > I tested the performace of various filesystems with a mozilla build tree > of 295MB, with primarily writing and copying operations. The test > system is Linux 2.6.0-test2, 512MB memory, 11531.85MB partition for > tests. Sync is run a few times throughout the test (for full script see > bottom of this email). I ran mkfs on the partition before every test. > Running the tests again tends to produces similar times, about +/- 3 > seconds. > > The first item number is time, in seconds, to complete the test (lower > is better). The second number is CPU use percentage (lower is better). > > reiser4 171.28s, 30%CPU (1.0000x time; 1.0x CPU) > reiserfs 302.53s, 16%CPU (1.7663x time; 0.53x CPU) > ext3 319.71s, 11%CPU (1.8666x time; 0.36x CPU) > xfs 429.79s, 13%CPU (2.5093x time; 0.43x CPU) > jfs 470.88s, 6%CPU (2.7492x time 0.02x CPU)
What about ext2? :-) I think it could be interesting to compare the overhead of a journaled fs against a non-one, simply for reference.
