Re: Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 10, 2014, at 11:26 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > I have some large ext4 filesystems with large numbers of files in them and > performance really sucks. After inactivity, a simple ls takes minutes to > complete. I'm pretty sure the drive is now powering itself down due to this >

Re: Suggestions for Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-14 Thread Kevin Cummings
Please don't reply personally. Please reply to the list. You posted your original question to the list, and for the sake of a possible few others who are following this thread, it is good to keep all replies on the list. On 11/14/2014 11:48 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Kevin, > > Thank you for y

Re: Suggestions for Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-12 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 11/12/2014 05:24 PM, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > I got one suggestion that was mixed up with the response to another question > regarding printers. The response suggested "man tune2fs". I had looked at > this and looked again but saw NOTHING that seemed to relate to my question. > Are th

Re: Suggestions for Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-12 Thread George R Goffe
Hi, I got one suggestion that was mixed up with the response to another question regarding printers. The response suggested "man tune2fs". I had looked at this and looked again but saw NOTHING that seemed to relate to my question. Are there any other suggestions please? Regards, George... --

Re: Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-10 Thread fedora
man tune2fs suomi On 11/11/2014 07:26 AM, George R Goffe wrote: Hi, I have some large ext4 filesystems with large numbers of files in them and performance really sucks. After inactivity, a simple ls takes minutes to complete. I'm pretty sure the drive is now powering itself down due to this

Poor ext4 performance questions

2014-11-10 Thread George R Goffe
Hi, I have some large ext4 filesystems with large numbers of files in them and performance really sucks. After inactivity, a simple ls takes minutes to complete. I'm pretty sure the drive is now powering itself down due to this inactivity. Are there tuning parameters that I could alter that w