3 Aug
2003
3 Aug
'03
7:31 p.m.
I remember some talk a while ago about different
filesystems and their
performance. All my partitions are formatted as reiserfs and I get
terrible performance. I've done tons of tests, bought a 7200 RPM drive,
bought more ram, worked with buffer sizes... So I'm assuming that I need
to format my drive as another filesystem.
ReiserFS is very fast filesystem, but there's alot more to it than just what file
system you're using. You may want to consider several things: 1) what is your hdparm
set to? 2) Do you have the proper support for your chipset compiled into the kernel? Just
because it works doesn't mean it's set up properly. 3) Is it a brand new type of
controller? The drivers for it may still be a work in progress and they may not currently
function the greatest. (SATA controllers on Nvidia chipsets for instance) 4) There are
other factors to consider in disk speed than RPM, for example what size cache does it have
and what is it's seek time? 5) What other processes are running and what kind of load
are they putting on your hard drive.