Differences for win32 versus Linux open() performance

[John Arbash Meinel]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> I'm working on profiling initial commit performance. I ended up creating
> a tree that has all the files of mysql, but without any content. It
> still took ~9s to commit.
> 
> So I started digging further, and I found that *just*:
>    open(fname, 'rb').close()
> 
> For 7k files takes 3.6s on win32. On a much older linux sytem, it only
> takes 0.6s. I assume this is the issues with opening a file locks its
> path, etc.

I did this test in a different directory, and it was only 1.8s. So it
seems that my filesystem is rather fragmented (I'm down to 5G/50GB, so
it could be having some difficulties.)

Still 1.8s versus 0.5s on older hardware...

John
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