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Subject: Re: naive but spectacular ext3 HTREE+Orlov benchmark
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 15:17, bert hubert wrote:
> Congratulations everybody, this is a major result! You can in fact *hear*
> the difference. With the Orlov allocator, seeks are much more higher pitched
> as if they are generally over shorter distances - which they probably are.

How does the Orlov allocator do if you continually randomly use and
reuse the file space for a long period of time - the current allocator
is pretty stable, does Orlov behave the same or degenerate ?

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