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PERFORMANCE (includes ReiserFS)

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 13, 2006 10:27 AM
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PERFORMANCE
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Our highest priority is reliable functionality, performance comes only
next. However acceptable performance is part of the functionality so we
constantly keep an eye on it and consider any major performance issue to
be a real functionality problem as well.

Below are the averaged file creation, deletion and access performance
numbers got by running 'bonnie++ -s0' using several filesystems (the
benchmark used 16,000 files per directory in each sessions):

Version  1.03    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
          files <nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sec %CP <nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sec %CP <nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sec %CP <nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sec %CP <nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sec %CP <nobr> <wbr></nobr>/sec %CP
reiserfs-----16k 21459 99 +++++ +++ 17856  96 20172  98 +++++ +++ 16414  96
jfs----------16k  7015 13 +++++ +++  5868  10  3068  14 +++++ +++  1075  3
ntfs-3g------16k  3021 99 14291  99  5226  99  3548  99 16149  99  5223  99
xfs----------16k  2401 17 +++++ +++  2095  15  2301  20 +++++ +++  347  2
ext3---------16k  1862 96 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  1914  96 +++++ +++  9695  98
minix--------16k  1450 97 +++++ +++ 18148  94  1694  97 +++++ +++  4847  98
fat32--------16k   366 97 +++++ +++  1809  97  428  97 +++++ +++  1361  97
paragon ntfs-16k    58 98  1259  99  245  99    55  99 +++++ +++  832  99
captive ntfs-    Always crashes early on file creations and loses files-
                This was also confirmed and fix denied by its developer.

We estimate the ntfs-3g driver performance could be increased by several times.

Well ReiserFS seems HUGELY better than ext3,... so no wonder Novelle is swapping to ext3.

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