Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:34:39 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My primitive guess is that it was because > > the ext3 journal became full. > > The default ext3 journal size is inappropriately small, btw. Normally > you should manually make it 128M or so, rather than 32M. Unless you > have a small amount of memory and/or a large number of filesystems, in > which case there might be problems with pinned memory. > > Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs > is getting in the way.
on ext3, when juggling patches and trees, the biggest performance boost for me comes from adding noatime,nodiratime to the mount options in /etc/fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3 noatime,nodiratime,defaults 1 1
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