On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > The 2.4 series is slower than the 2.2 series for FS usage regardless of whether
> > ext2 or reiserfs. The slowness is believed to not be a reiserfs feature but to
> > be due to the upper layers above reiserfs. There might be some benefit to their
> > becoming more systematic in testing performance of VFS/VM before accepting
> > patches, and testing like we do. If that is desired, I can probably spare some
> > of Yura's time for that.
>
> The problem must be part of reiserfs because my system is totally unusable
> when writing to disk with reiserfs 3.6.10/kernel 2.4.0-test3-8 and it has
> been that way in all 2.4 kernels. I had ext2 on my partitions before I
> switched to reiserfs and ext2 was a LOT faster on both reads and writes.
>
Please describe the programs you are using, we don't see this with 3.6.11
(our latest patch against 2.4.0-test3)
-chris
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