ext3fs slowness -- how things proceed

[Matthias Andree]

Matt Armstrong schrieb am Tuesday, den 04. February 2003:

> I do wonder if ordering the writes to the db would help.  This is the
> idea I've brought up before.  If we write keys to the db in the same
> order that the db sorts them, theoretically, no single page in the BDB
> would be written to disk more than once -- though this depends on how
> BDB is written.

Some pages will be rewritten, but few compared to what we rewrite now.

The question is if it's more efficient to lean towards BerkeleyDB
caching even if it can't have the whole DB in the cache or if we try to
tune our write order first.

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Matthias Andree