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Re: [opensuse-factory] The plan to speed up openSUSE 11.2
  • From: Rastislav Krupanský <rastislav.krupansky@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:05:29 +0200
  • Message-id: <f5d8bd3c0906070405u5e0a62fdqc758208eeeabb658@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
2009/6/7 Martin <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>:
Lørdag den 6. juni 2009 17:34:08 skrev Rastislav Krupanský:
2009/6/5 Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>:
I'm not sure, but it might already add to the puzzle why ubuntu is
faster for you. They don't have beagle and they use relatime by
default.

I used relatime as is in the ubuntu's fstab and times are almost
comparable. For Gimp it saved 5-6 seconds and also another apps start
up faster ;-) Finally.
It seems that relatime could fix it.
So, what's next?

I did some highly unscientific measurements with default fstab options, then
adding noatime and then realtime. Like this:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHV2080BH_NW78T652BFEN-part2 /
ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHV2080BH_NW78T652BFEN-part2 /
ext3       noatime,acl,user_xattr        1 1

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHV2080BH_NW78T652BFEN-part2 /
ext3       realtime,acl,user_xattr        1 1

For me (fresh user on 11.1/kde4.3beta) there's no real difference with any of
these fstab options.

Cold start FF (3.0.10): 8-9s
Warm start FF: 1-2s

Cold start Gimp (2.6.2): 12s
Warm start Gimp: 5-6s


On Mandriva 2009.0:

Fstab looks like this:
UUID=7c2d957c-d69d-11dd-b9ef-c5218aa42eda / ext3 noatime 1 1

Cold start FF (3.0.5): 4s
Warm start FF: 1s

Cold start Gimp (2.4.7): 9s
Warm start Gimp: 3s

What is the full fstab entry that you use to achieve those results with
realtime?

Watch out. No realtime, but relatime. But i'm talking about ext4. I
don't know whether relatime has any
influence on ext3. But try it. For ext3 try to add noatime and disable barriers.

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HTS424040M9AT00_MPA248Q2JL49AE-part1 / ext3
acl,user_xattr,noatime,barrier=0 1 1

have a look on this article
http://vavai.net/2009/01/15/opensuse-tweak-increase-opensuse-speed-performance/
and especially comment by Cristian Rodriguez

Here you are my times. Everything are cold starts.

relatime

user@linux-pws2:~> time firefox %u
real 0m7.497s
user 0m1.148s
sys 0m1.200s

user@linux-pws2:~> time gimp
real 0m16.019s
user 0m3.468s
sys 0m4.464s

user@linux-pws2:~> time oowriter %U
real 0m14.811s
user 0m0.560s
sys 0m3.072s

user@linux-pws2:~> time gnome-control-center
real 0m3.119s
user 0m0.532s
sys 0m0.700s

noatime

user@linux-pws2:~/Desktop> time firefox %u
real 0m8.071s
user 0m1.252s
sys 0m0.956s

user@linux-pws2:~/Desktop> time gimp
real 0m19.466s
user 0m3.880s
sys 0m5.184s

user@linux-pws2:~/Desktop> time oowriter %U
real 0m27.235s
user 0m0.756s
sys 0m3.156s

user@linux-pws2:~/Desktop> time gnome-control-center
real 0m2.972s
user 0m0.528s
sys 0m0.464s

Ubuntu

user@user-desktop:~$ time firefox %u
real 0m7.045s
user 0m0.728s
sys 0m1.016s

user@user-desktop:~$ time gimp
real 0m12.354s
user 0m2.520s
sys 0m3.532s

user@user-desktop:~$ time ooffice -writer %F
real 0m13.336s
user 0m0.092s
sys 0m0.892s

user@user-desktop:~$ time gnome-control-center
real 0m3.023s
user 0m0.776s
sys 0m0.504s


--
S pozdravom / Best regards,

Rasto
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