Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261710AbVD0GfZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:35:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261702AbVD0GfY (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:35:24 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:14811 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261695AbVD0GfQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:35:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:34:39 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: Magnus Damm , mason@suse.com, torvalds@osdl.org, mike.taht@timesys.com, mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks Message-ID: <20050427063439.GA22014@elte.hu> References: <20050426004111.GI21897@waste.org> <200504260713.26020.mason@suse.com> <200504261138.46339.mason@suse.com> <20050426135606.7b21a2e2.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050426135606.7b21a2e2.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 28 * Andrew Morton wrote: > Magnus Damm wrote: > > > > My primitive guess is that it was because > > the ext3 journal became full. > > The default ext3 journal size is inappropriately small, btw. Normally > you should manually make it 128M or so, rather than 32M. Unless you > have a small amount of memory and/or a large number of filesystems, in > which case there might be problems with pinned memory. > > Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs > is getting in the way. on ext3, when juggling patches and trees, the biggest performance boost for me comes from adding noatime,nodiratime to the mount options in /etc/fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 noatime,nodiratime,defaults 1 1 Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/