15x better Neo4j write throughput on Linux ext4 (structr.org)

maybe some of you have experienced poor write performance on their Linux boxes as I did, esp. with small transactions.

In my tests I was able to increase the throughput by a factor of 15! Here's a blog post about my findings:

http://structr.org/blog/neo4j-performance-on-ext4

Comments?

Best Axel