ext3 + db = slooooow

[Andreas Metzler]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:04:30PM -0500, 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.
[...]

Notebook hard-disks are much slower than desktop-harddisks, iirc.
(smaller, less RpM).
                cu andreas