ext3 + db = slooooow

[David Relson]

At 12:04 PM 1/31/03, Greg Louis wrote:

>Shoulda thought of that long since :(  If I build that spamlist.db on a
>machine with an ext2 partition instead of my notebook's ext3, it takes
>about 3 minutes instead of thirteen, even though the CPU on that
>machine is 733MHz not 1100 and it has half the RAM of my notebook.
>I've often heard that for some things journalling fs's really slow you
>down, but this is the first time I've been in such a situation.
>
>I suspect I need to mount the ext3 partition for this job with
>different options from the default.  Will go read up on that again.
>Very sorry for all the wasted time (and rather relieved that it's not
>really an intrinsic bogofilter problem).

Greg,

And the bad news is:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)

and my cpu only has 500MHz, not the 733 or 1100 you've got.  Possibly the 
SCSI drive helps.

Evidentally journaling isn't the _whole_ answer to the problem.  It may be 
a factor.  I dunno.

David