-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-04-05 17:43, Anton Aylward wrote:
But just unpacking archives? That's bursty. Unpack, compile ... Or are you doing something that is continuous unpacking and nothing else?
The kernel can cache the entire unpack operation in RAM, and do the actual writing to disk later. XFS also uses RAM structures more than other filesystems. That delayed, intensive, write operation can tax heavily some computers more than normal. It happens to some people, that complain that even the mouse doesn't respond. Running a kernel build on a reiserfs partition runs faster than on ext3, by the way. Lots of small files are created. XFS has dynamic inodes: the number is not fixed at filesystem creation time. The btrfs people take ideas from XFS, they have some developers in common, IIRC. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlUiciAACgkQja8UbcUWM1xrJwD/dICCfLZlEdo7vPpTOTx/CmuM luZkOZoMVK+3nDlkBWAA/R1hWBSVqgIsrPOzHMm7wcoa9r10OMhfNLwQHuMHr+fH =CEv4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org