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ScottChapman
Dec 07, 2014Apprentice
Write performance on EXT3/EXT4 is REALLY SLOW!
So, thought this was just an issue with EXT4, but reformatted to EXT3 and am still getting ridiculously slow write performance. Any ideas on how to make it more reasonable? I see that barrier=1 is ...
ScottChapman
Dec 08, 2014Apprentice
OK, so I compared my OS6.2.1 system (slow) with my Pro 2 system (fast), and there are differences:
Mounting Options:
Pro2:
316:
And File System Features:
Pro2:
316:
NOTE: on my 316 I removed journaling from my FS which helped.
Mounting Options:
Pro2:
/dev/sdd5 /USB/USB_HDD_3 ext4 rw,noatime,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=journal 0 0
316:
/dev/sdg1 /media/ESATA_HDD_10 ext4 rw,sync,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr,barrier=1 0 0
And File System Features:
Pro2:
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file extra_isize
316:
Filesystem features: ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
NOTE: on my 316 I removed journaling from my FS which helped.
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