ext3 + db = slooooow

[Matthias Andree]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Greg Louis wrote:

> Well, I'm trying it now on an even slower machine with ext3/SCSI, also
> ordered data mode, and we're over five minutes and counting... took
> just under 3 minutes to the point where it prints the word and message
> counts... finished now, fourteen minutes twenty seconds.

So reading all the messages takes 3 minutes and writing the data out
takes another 12 minutes. That just sucks, whatever the reason.

What is the exact kernel version again?