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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. Windows/Mac by dalutong · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since this is just a test of unpacking and deleting lots of files... couldn't one do this test in Windows/Mac OSX to see how their file systems match up.

    Does anyone have any benchmarks comparing them?

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