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From: pg@btrfs.list.sabi.co.UK (Peter Grandi)
To: Linux fs Btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Btrfs + compression = slow performance and high cpu usage
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 00:54:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22913.5277.694308.689951@tree.ty.sabi.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22912.57311.417226.447973@tree.ty.sabi.co.uk>

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> This is the "storage for beginners" version, what happens in
> practice however depends a lot on specific workload profile
> (typical read/write size and latencies and rates), caching and
> queueing algorithms in both Linux and the HA firmware.

To add a bit of slightly more advanced discussion, the main
reason for larger strips ("chunk size) is to avoid the huge
latencies of disk rotation using unsynchronized disk drives, as
detailed here:

  http://www.sabi.co.uk/blog/12-thr.html?120310#120310

That relates weakly to Btrfs.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-01 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <33040946.535.1501254718807.JavaMail.gkos@dynomob>
2017-07-28 16:40 ` Btrfs + compression = slow performance and high cpu usage Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
2017-07-28 17:48   ` Roman Mamedov
2017-07-28 18:20     ` William Muriithi
2017-07-28 18:37       ` Hugo Mills
2017-07-28 18:08   ` Peter Grandi
2017-07-30 13:42     ` Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
2017-07-31 11:41       ` Peter Grandi
2017-07-31 12:33         ` Peter Grandi
2017-07-31 12:49           ` Peter Grandi
2017-08-01  9:58         ` Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
2017-08-01 10:53           ` Paul Jones
2017-08-01 13:14           ` Peter Grandi
2017-08-01 18:09             ` Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
2017-08-01 20:09               ` Peter Grandi
2017-08-01 23:54                 ` Peter Grandi [this message]
2017-08-31 10:56                 ` Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
2017-07-28 18:44   ` Peter Grandi

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