[Users] Random delays... (bis)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 19:25:19 +0100, Slavko wrote:
>Ahoj,
>
>Dňa Thu, 8 Dec 2016 18:32:16 +0100 wwp <subscript at free.fr> napísal:
>
>> Strange, on both of you and Pierre's sides, system specs show
>> powerful machines. Here my config is way less powerful and entering a
>> 40K-message folder takes 5-8sec, a 20K-message 2.5-4sec, a
>> 10K-message 1.5-3.5sec (see how it seems to be proportional and
>> consistent).  
>
>I see the ext4 in some from their reports. My experiences are, that the
>ext4 can be noticeable slow in some cases, i  use rieserfs due this for
>all my HDDs, and ext4 only for SSDs, because reiserfs has not trim
>option.
>
>I have max 3k messages in folders, then i cannot compare for this case,
>but i see some delay if i have some processing enabled for these dirs.

I can hear my HDD working, during the delay.


At least Suse made rieserfs the default for Suse 9.0 in 2003, perhaps
earlier, but this was my first Linux. However, at the same time when
Mr. Rieser's wife was missing, in 2006, Suse migrated to ext3, related
to performance issues caused by rieserfs.