Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 08:33:21 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: File System Performance |
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Ben Israel wrote: > > ... > 128M SDRAM > ... > time cp -r /usr/src/linux-2.4.6 tst > ... > 2*144MB/48s=6MB/sec >
There was some discussion about this last week. It appears to be due to ext2's directory placement policy. Al Viro has a patch which implements the "Orlov allocator" which FreeBSD are using.
It works, and it'll get you close to disk bandwidth with this test. But the effects of this change on other workloads (the so-called "slow growth" scenario) still needs to be understood and tested.
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