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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:42:08 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>
Cc: Frank de Lange <lkml-frank@unternet.org>,
        Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Abysmal interactive performance on 2.4.linus
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:27:00AM +0100, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:56:42PM +0100, Frank de Lange wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Seems that reiserfs is the common factor here, at least on my box. This is a 35
> > > GB reiserfs filesystem, app 80% used, both large and small files.
> > > 
> > > As said in my previous message, the numbers themselves don't mean squat. It is
> > > the large delays (the fact that user+sys <<< real) which are the problem here.
> > > 
> > > Any other magic anyone wants me to perform? Hans, you reading this?
> > > 
> > 
> > Do you see/hear a lot of seeking happing during the delays?
> 
> Yup this is probably what's happening to me. I didn't think a harddrive
> could do so many seeks so fast :)
> 

Check out the thread "reiserfs performance loss" back in oct 12 and 13...

Mike
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