[NBLUG/talk] ext3 performance

[Mark Street]

I didn't read the whole thing. ...  I don't think your writeback idea will be 
sufficient though.  I have heard it both ways although it depends on the size 
of the files.  Red Hat says to use the writeback option in their filesystem 
tuning pages.

I used this paper when I was researching my problems.. which is why I 
suggested jfs or xfs for the larger smp system.

http://www.streetchiro.com/filesystem-perf-tm.pdf

On Sunday 23 November 2003 14:55, Scott Doty wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:08:46AM -0800, Mark Street wrote:
> > I was having some issues with this when I was tranferring and processing
> > DV over my network... paltry as it is...  I went to ext2 on those drives
> > and performance increased considerably... of course no journal...
> >
> > The large pipe support may be an idea... or try jfs.  I haven't gone back
> > to my efforts for lack of time.  Keep us up on your efforts.
> >
> > http://lse.sourceforge.net/
>
> The large pipe support appears to be a project to increase buffer size for
> pipes.  (It's not clear how this would help ext3 performance...?)

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