On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:10:15 +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:36:35 +0100 vous Ãcriviez:
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> > I think I have narrowed it down to XFS.
>
> I notice you use a bleeding-edge unstable kernel, with a whole new
> scheduler. I tried your benchmark on a machine running a known stable
> kernel (2.6.20.17) and the slowdown is similar in xfs and other fs.
I don't see the slowdown in ext3.
> As a side note, I personnally wouldn't choose xfs for desktop users
> home directories (email,web, etc) because it's much better at pure
> throughput and quite slower at IOPS than other FSes. Reiserfs is the
> best of the common FSes for this.
>
> I'm quite surprised that apparently your production system is running
> a prerelease kernel. Why?
Actually it's now running 2.6.23
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