Greetings all,
I performed some timing tests for 2.5.44 mm3 and ac2, using
tar zxf of the 2.5.44 tarball and rm -rf of the resulting tree as the load.
I performed each of these 4 times. There was some variation between runs,
but not as much as between kernel versions. This data comes from the
first of the 4 runs in each case.
The hardware was a single PIII, kernels were UP, PREEMPT.
All partitions are on the same disk, a ST340016A ATA.
For mm3, SHAREPTE was not enabled.
This is not intended as a comparison between filesystems, since each
is on a different part of the disk. But the reputation for reiserfs
to be able to delete files quickly seems deserved. The side-by-side numbers
are intended to show the amount of regression for each fs.
Yes, I know it would be nice to compare plain 2.5.44 too, but there is
only so much time in the day.
Steven
ext3
tar zxf linux-2.5.44.tar.gz 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 4.42 4.39
system 4.09 4.05
elapsed 00:53.17 00:34.05
% CPU 16 24
rm -rf linux-2.5.44 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 0.02 0.02
system 0.58 0.58
elapsed 00:19.73 00:14.13
% CPU 3 4
reiserfs
tar zxf linux-2.5.44.tar.gz 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 4.57 4.51
system 5.4 5.22
elapsed 00:15.58 00:14.09
% CPU 64 69
rm -rf linux-2.5.44 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 0.02 0.02
system 1.65 1.66
elapsed 00:04.38 00:01.92
% CPU 38 88
xfs
tar zxf linux-2.5.44.tar.gz 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 4.61 4.6
system 6.13 6.08
elapsed 00:58.93 00:40.26
% CPU 18 26
rm -rf linux-2.5.44 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 0.07 0.05
system 2.23 2.14
elapsed 00:19.15 00:08.68
% CPU 12 25
jfs
tar zxf linux-2.5.44.tar.gz 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 4.53 4.4
system 4.01 3.94
elapsed 00:34.71 00:31.67
% CPU 24 26
rm -rf linux-2.5.44 2.5.44-mm3 2.5.44-ac2
user 0.03 0.03
system 0.62 0.55
elapsed 00:14.78 00:08.60
% CPU 4 6