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I have a normal hardware, I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 anew. But something's completely wrong. PHPunit tests are REALLY slow.

I have no idea what's wrong. With ext3 all was normal.

Thanks.

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    You re-installed the entire operating system and you think the filesystem choice is the problem? Why do you think this? Could anything else be different?
    – Ladadadada
    Apr 16, 2012 at 15:00
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    Have you looked at dmesg or done some disk/smart tests to see if the disk is OK?
    – Tim
    Apr 16, 2012 at 15:07
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    By normal do you mean non-virtualized?
    – HTTP500
    Apr 16, 2012 at 15:13
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    What is the load and memory usage of the system? How big is your database? Have you tried running the queries directly against MYSQL? What about using an EXPLAIN on one of the aforementioned queries? Assuming its the file system is jumping the gun in a big way.
    – Andrew M.
    Apr 16, 2012 at 17:02
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    How would the hard drive seller know if the disk is OK now?
    – ceejayoz
    Apr 16, 2012 at 18:27

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It looks like setting barrier=0 as a mount option will help with performance.

See MySQL bug #46959.

Test in a Staging environment first!

Hope this helps.

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  • just for a record - i've noticed that the bug #46959 is two or three years old, but still reproduces on the new Ubuntu.
    – valk
    Apr 16, 2012 at 21:02
  • also, found this. "barriers are disabled by default because they have a serious impact on performance" - in my case they were ENABLED, and serious impact in my case was DISASTROUS :)
    – valk
    Apr 16, 2012 at 21:14

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