ext3 + db = slooooow

[Matthias Andree]

On Sat, 01 Feb 2003, Greg Louis wrote:

> Well, since I first noticed things being slow, kernel versions tried
> have been 2.4.21-pre3-ac4, -ac5 and now -pre4-ac1.  I've also done a
> bit with 2.4.20-ac4 which seems about the same as the 21-pre-ac ones.
> 
> Up to now I haven't taken this to the ext3-users list, but I suppose I
> could at least ask there whether anyone has any tuning suggestions.

It'd be great if you could ask there and tell them that you're using
BDB to load a lot of data.