Re: Tuning XFS for peak performance. (fwd)

[GCS <gcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Austin,

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:11:00PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:

> While stable, it doesn't do
> me any good if I have to wait 5 mins for PINE to open when it's only
> moving a few messages from inbox to other boxes. The same operation would
> take 30 seconds with ReiserFS.
 Personaly I do not think it is a problem with XFS. First, please check
your drive with "hdparm -t /dev/hda" (I suppose it is hda in your
machine). Maybe you compiled your kernel without proper DMA support on
the IDE bus or just does not set it up with hdparm. For me ReiserFS and
XFS gives the same performance more or less.
 (In brackets: pine is slooow, and has more holes than a cheese has.
Change to mutt, it performs mailbox operations much more faster, etc).

Regards, Laszlo