Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 02:23:50 +0200 From: Dennis Berger <Dennis.Berger@nipsi.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dirpref gives massive performance boost Message-ID: <3BB51496.90E163A@nipsi.de> References: <20010928141246.A15515@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Does I have to specify anything while creating the new filesystem or are there good default values. Kris Kennaway wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a note to those who have updated to 4.4-STABLE that it's well > worth doing a backup + newfs + restore on all your UFS volumes. The > "dirpref" UFS changes which went in after 4.4-RELEASE give a > significant performance boost to common filesystem operations. For > example: > > cvs update on my /usr/src from a local CVS repository used to take > 1200 seconds, pre-dirpref. It now takes 400 seconds - that's a factor > of 3 faster on a real-world benchmark. I forgot to time cvs update in > ports before I newfs'ed, but I'd expect the performance gain to be > even higher because the ports tree is chock full of directories. > > Truly impressive.. > > Kris > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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