linux-ext4 - Re: fsck performance.

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Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:13:04 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>,
	Pawe?? Brodacki <pawel.brodacki@...glemail.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fsck performance.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:32:28AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> Any idea what the hash size does to memory usage?  I wonder if we
> can scale this based on the directory count, or if the memory usage
> is minimal (only needed in case of tdb) then just make it the
> default. It definitely appears to have been a major performance
> boost.

Yeah, that was my question.  Your patch adds a magic number which
probably works well on your machine (and I'm not really worried if
someone has less than 1G --- here's a quarter kid, buy your self a
real computer :-).  But I wonder if we should be using a hash size
which is sized automatically depending on available memory or file
system size.

					- Ted
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