From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:56:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks
Message-ID: <20050426135606.7b21a2e2.akpm@osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <aec7e5c305042609231a5d3f0@mail.gmail.com>

Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My primitive guess is that it was because
>  the ext3 journal became full.

The default ext3 journal size is inappropriately small, btw.  Normally you
should manually make it 128M or so, rather than 32M.  Unless you have a
small amount of memory and/or a large number of filesystems, in which case
there might be problems with pinned memory.

Mounting as ext2 is a useful technique for determining whether the fs is
getting in the way.