ext3 + db = slooooow

[David Relson]

At 01:03 PM 1/31/03, Greg Louis wrote:

>On 20030131 (Fri) at 1831:11 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > Notebook hard-disks are much slower than desktop-harddisks, iirc.
> > (smaller, less RpM).
> >                 cu andreas
>
>That's true, and I'd be the first to agree that _this_ notebook's hard
>disk is very noticeably sluggish!  However, I've now run the job on the
>same partition on the same machine (not the notebook), mounted as ext2
>and mounted as ext3; as ext2 it takes three minutes, as ext3 fourteen.
>(10,000rpm SCSI but 400MHz PII / 128 Mb RAM)

Sounds like you've pinpointed the main factor.  Good work.