> >Highmem+SMP is also what I'm blessed with, ~2.2 million files on a 250GB
> >hardware raid5 xfs partition...removing 30 files of ~300 bytes each takes
> >approximately 1 minute(!).
>
> I suggest downloading the tarball of the mandrake 2.4.8 kernel which has
> XFS support.
> http://iserv.nl/files/xfs/ It will probably do a lot better.
> It is 38% faster with ext2 then the 2.4.2 kernel that came with redhat 7.1
>
> I let the box run with continous IO from mongo.pl with 50 processes which
> produced a constant load average of about 52. The box was sluggish but had
> a good response. It run for a day without crashing.
> This was with ext2, xfs tomorrow.
The problem may be related to raid5 and xfs needing to do 512 byte I/O.
Steve
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