I recently tried out BTRFS on my new 1.5 terrabyte hard drive, using ext3 as /boot. I also have 3 gigabytes of swap. Anyway, I've found that the new Kubuntu 10.10 installation on this BTRFS hard drive has much worse performance than my old ext4 hard drive. Also, it doesn't take much with the new installation for the CPU to be so overwhelmed that my entire computer becomes unresponsive for a bit. One theory that I have is that BTRFS uses a lot more RAM than ext4 because I only have 1 gigabyte of RAM in my computer. Does anyone know anything about this?
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When an OS slows down, it could be caused by a few things. I tend to think BTRFS isn't one of them. More likely is CPU being drained by misconfigured video driver, the silly search tools that became a fashion for a while and were used by Ubuntu, or other tools like "locate" being run by the OS (automatically) every day. Imho 1GB ram is plenty for modern Linux kernels.
When you get slowdown, run "top" from the command line and have a look what is happening.
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I've already done that. There's nothing in particular that's causing the slowdown. Programs that previously hadn't used as much CPU, now seem to be using more. A misconfigured video driver might be the problem. I'm using NVIDIA's blob. The only change in how I've set up my video driver is that I set my image settings to "High Performance" instead of something in the middle. I also set both antialiasing and anisotropic filtering settings to "Use Application Settings" instead of "Enhance Application Settings" and then giving them the max setting. Any thoughts?
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Originally posted by Prescience500 View PostThat's great news. I can't wait until Kubuntu 11.04 when my drive will speed up. Also, I look forward to seeing BTRFS performance metrics comparing 10.10 to 11.04 and comparing it to ext4.
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According to recent performance metrics, BTRFS doesn't seem much faster (except for just a few metrics), even with the latest snapshot of kernel 2.6.38.
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Maybe it'll be different once things like compression and what not are added.
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