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

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

I think you have to use sdparm for SATA and PATA drives now. But I believe
its not required anymore because the best settings are automatically set on
startup.

On 4/24/07, Ravi S. Kumar <ra21vi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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