Slower performance with ext4

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 10/30/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Slower performance with ext4
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 7:05 AM
> Raphael wrote:
> > 
> > Help, after I had clean installed Karmic on my ext4
> partition, 
> 
> the performance was significantly slower compared to ext3.
> 
>   Startup was around 7 secs but with ext4 it's now 20
> secs 
> application
> 
>   speeds are also slower.
> 
> 
>     If you can document this in a bug report
> it will help the 
> designers of ext4 to work on their project to speed it up.
>     
> I have been working on my wife's Windows XP and it is sure
> 
> lazy coming on. They have an early Microsoft add, and then
> XP 
> starts to unfold...
> 
> Karl
> 
>
Karl, try reading the link the OP gave.  A bug report has already been filed.  Actually it was on data loss as far as I read. 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net