Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: benchmarks

[Xuan Baldauf <xuan--reiserfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:29:27AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
>
>     Last time I tested this one process could only open slightly more
>     than 80,000 files (I am not about to test this at the moment as
>     doing so allocates a lot of kernel memory that can't be swapped
>     and therefore requires a reboot to regain good performance).
>
> FWIW, I am able to open 1e6 files without any effort whatsoever. Code
> attached (just wrote this now).
>
> You need to up /proc/sys/fs/file-max and your ulimit obiously.
>
>   --cw
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    open-me.cName: open-me.c
>             Type: C source code (text/c)

Maybe you're creating only one dentry-, inode-, whatever-in-kernel-object
for one file. So you're maybe just increasing refcounters, not the amount
of objects. What about creating 1M files and then opening all different
files?

Xuân.