[ubuntu-in] reiserfs or ext3 (performance issues)

Ravi S. Kumar ra21vi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 17:50:26 BST 2007


I have been using Reiserfs 3.6 for long time (3 years), from the day of
my Gentoo experiences.
But now, after upgrading to Feisty, i have came with some problem, like
broken language settings, and a constant read of hard-drive.

Tweaking system, that I always do, after fresh installation to get most
out of the system, but now hdparm complains it cannt perform the action,
like setting io32_support to 3, etc.
Here is the error by HDPARM:
	* Setting disc parameters...
HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

, the device is right, it used to be /dev/hda, but now its /dev/sda
(feisty default setting for serial ATA).

Other problem apart from this, my harddisk is constantly read, putting
some CPU overhead. Reiserfs are CPU intensive, so I have non pleasing
system right though.

Can anyone suggest me something from system tool to check which process
is currently accessing HDD IO.

(*One more thing I noticed, Beagle takes a lot time indexing the
harddisk full of data, like my drive with songs, texts, and lots PDFs.
And during indexing such, it even makes the situation worst, but it is
not following the rule to index when the system is idle. **is this a
bug.)
so can someone let me know beagle alternative, I read once tat on
someones blog, an alternative written in C/C++, which is much easier on
system, and same as beagle.
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