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Huge Increase for Ext2/Ext3 Performance

Posted by chrisd on from the speed-is-good dept.

pixelbeat writes "Grigory Orlov origonally implemented this new allocator for FreeBSD, and it's been merged in 2.5.46 and the first benchmarks are in: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103 650970512510&w=2 In summary: 13% increase on unpacking a kernel tarball 43% increase on uncached kernel tree traversal 48% increase on cached kernel tree traversal 170%increase on deleting kernel tree"

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  1. Re:So... by ivan256 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I honestly want to know if it is a huge increase, or a small increase.

    As in all things benchmarking related, the answer is: It depends. This will be significant for certain uses of your system, but unimportant for others. If you've got a very busy file server, a news server, or a build machine where you do alot of compilation, this will be very significant. For other tasks you might not even notice.

    This is a kernel change, so there won't be any ISOs. Why not just try it now?