Re: Hard disk speed - Maybe OT

Bob Bob wrote:
I am trying to squeeze a bit more I/O bandwidth out of a video processing box w/out changing the hardware. [...]
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Was considering playing with buffer flushing times or maybe the file system itself. It is running vanilla reiser.

I'm not an expert, but over the years the usual thing I read about Reiser vs ext3 is that Reiser is very fast with *small* files while ext3 is very fast and uses less CPU with *big* files.
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    ... I note there is disk elevator adjustment that I may look at. ... Bob Bob wrote: ... but over the years the usual thing I read about Reiser vs ext3 is that Reiser is very fast with *small* files while ext3 is very fast and uses less CPU with *big* files. ...
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