Question: why does dbench take so much longer to run on XFS then ext2 file system

["Philip Chiang" <pchiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I am trying to make comparisons between ext2 and xfs file system. I ran 
dbench on my system with 150 clients on the ext2 file system and on the xfs 
file system. I ran this test several times, but the results are similar. On 
xfs, dbench takes 211 mins to finish. Where on ext2, it takes 60 mins. I want 
to ask "why it has such a big difference on the two file system?" One more 
note, when dbench is running on xfs, the whole system tag downs, CPU usage is 
at 99% all the time, is this normal?

 

 

 

I am using:

 

2.4.17 kernel

xfs patches for 2.4.17

128 M RAM

P3 850

40 GB IDE hard drives




Thanks 





Philip Chiang (pchiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)


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