On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:39:05PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:01:39PM, Christian Ordig wrote:
> > uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement??
> P2-350 with a 20Gb HDD running Linux 2.4.17 on a Slackware 8.0.
> My ~/mail is on a 600 Mb reiserfs partition. I think I will convert my
> /home dir to ext3 and then try Maildir to compare.
well ... promises of ReiserFS should even tell us "it's optimized for
filesystems holding thousands of small files" ...
> > on my P100 with a quite old HDD running OpenBSD 2.9 it takes
> > about one minute to open the whole mutt archive of last year
> > (about 9900 messages)...
> It takes about 7 seconds to open my mutt archive with 7914 messages.
ok this system should be quite faster per default than the stuff I use,
but should UFS be really _that_ faster?
I took a watch and measured time.
First opening the folder (sorting by threads and displaying) takes
57seconds. (in words: fifty-seven :-)
Number of messages: 9089 (mutt-users archive of 2001)
Hardware: P100, 128MB RAM, Socket7 ASUS Mainboard, 2.5GB Western Digital
IDE Harddrive
System: OpenBSD 2.9
Mutt-Version: 1.2.5 compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID -USE_DOTLOCK -USE_FCNTL +USE_FLOCK
-USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
Filesystem: UFS, mounted sync
> yes, I know. I tried to convert my mbox to Maildirs, but about 3 minutes
> to open a folder is really awfull, so I keep mbox
sure it is... but I think it should really be faster with your hardware,
shouldn't it? (I just guess so, since the HDD alone should already be
faster than my old IDE drive ...)
... strange ...
maybe I'll copy a big folder over to my Dual PIII system with a
UDMA100 drive having Linux and Ext2 and verify the poor results.
Are there others having such poor performance with Maildir as Benjamin
has? And with which filesystem OS combinations?
confused greetings ... :-)
--
Christian Ordig
Germany
