Next time, do your test with 2x or more the amount of ram.

I did the tests with a 500MB file, for instance.

* Austad, Jay <austad at marketwatch.com> [001213 01:42]:
> Sweet!  I didn't even bother to try Reiser because the version of mkreiserfs
> that I have won't let me adjust the block size, so I gave up since the
> manual preaches about 2048B blocksize.
> 
> I just reformatted my disk with reiser and I'm running  bonnie on it to
> compare it to ext2.  
> 
> ReiserFS:
> 
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
> --Random--
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
> --Seeks---
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec
> %CPU
>           100  6205 96.5 43356 93.6   453  1.1   877 12.5 28765 18.3 17443.3
> 95.9
>           100  1744 26.7 47848 96.3   609  1.3  6820 96.2 91798 89.6  61.3
> 0.3
>           100  6256 96.4 48244 95.6   432  0.8  6866 96.1 114530 94.0  72.2
> 0.4
>           100  6114 95.5 47270 94.6   437  0.9  6861 96.3 117158 92.7  72.7
> 0.4
> 
> 
> ext2:
> 
>               -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--
> --Random--
>               -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
> --Seeks---
> Machine    MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec
> %CPU
>           100  6272 92.6 88213 91.3 47749 92.8  6820 96.2 154711 92.2 119.1
> 0.7
>           100  6597 96.3 91556 94.8 50079 95.9  6854 96.5 160844 97.4 182.5
> 1.0
>           100  6484 95.2 93161 96.4 49358 93.0  6872 96.5 154766 92.2 149.8
> 0.9
>           100  6598 96.5 93746 95.2 51057 96.2  6798 96.0 156069 94.5 124.9
> 0.7
> 
> 
> 
> Looks like ext2 whooped Reiser.  I didn't add any special options to reiser.
> I wonder if the reiserfs was 2048 byte blocks like the ext2 one if it would
> make a difference.
> 
> Jay
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Dier [mailto:dieman at ringworld.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:49 PM
> > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] REAL Verbatim drive Q (:
> > 
> > 
> > * Austad, Jay <austad at marketwatch.com> [001212 22:19]:
> > > Can't use ReiserFS on it.  Reiser will only format with 
> > 4096 byte blocks.  
> > 
> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/disc on /mnt/mo type reiserfs
> > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=dieman)
> > 
> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/disc
> >                         620680    131428    489252  22% /mnt/mo
> > 
> > Worked fine here :)  I'm using a Tekram DC-315U card.
> > 
> > scsi0 : Tekram DC395U/UW/F DC315/U V1.32, 2000-12-02
> > Vendor: OLYMPUS   Model: MOS364            Rev: 1.02
> > Type:   Optical Device                     ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> > DC395x: Target 04:  Sync: 100ns Offset 15 (10.0 MB/s)
> > SCSI device sda: 310352 2048-byte hdwr sectors (636 MB)
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> #linuxos at irc.openprojects.net
> > http://www.ringworld.org/  finger:dieman at destiny.ringworld.org
> > 
> > "Kupo, kupkup, kupopo...  Po... Kupo!?  KUPOPO!!!
> > 	<Chomp chomp> Kupooo."
> > 		-Moguta (FFIX)
> > 
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