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From: Patrik Lundquist <patrik.lundquist@gmail.com>
To: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Major HDD performance degradation on btrfs receive
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:01:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA7pwKMkrraeCcusTaKDjinKQ5YPgAyRPoKa+66XOZefYhi8Tg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160223172635.GI22487@merlins.org>

On 23 February 2016 at 18:26, Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> wrote:
>
> I'm currently doing a very slow defrag to see if it'll help (looks like
> it's going to take days).
> I'm doing this:
> for i in dir1 dir2 debian32 debian64 ubuntu dir4 ; do echo $i; time btrfs fi defragment -v -r $i; done
[snip]
> Also, should I try running defragment -r from cron from time to time?

I find the default threshold a bit low and defragment daily with "-t
1m" to combat heavy random write fragmentation.

Once in a while I defrag e.g. VM disk images with "-t 128m" but find
higher thresholds mostly a waste of time.

YMMV.


> But, just to be clear, is there a way I missed to see how fragmented my
> filesystem is without running filefrag on millions of files and parsing
> the output?

I don't think so, and filefrag is slow with heavily fragmented files
because ioctl(FS_IOC_FIEMAP) is called many times with a buffer which
only fits 292 fiemap_extents.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-22 19:58 Major HDD performance degradation on btrfs receive Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-02-22 23:30 ` Duncan
2016-02-23 17:26   ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-23 17:34     ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-23 18:01       ` Lionel Bouton
2016-02-23 18:30         ` Marc MERLIN
2016-02-23 20:35           ` Lionel Bouton
2016-02-24 10:01     ` Patrik Lundquist [this message]
2016-02-23 16:55 ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-02-23 17:05   ` Alexander Fougner
2016-02-23 17:18     ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-02-23 17:29       ` Alexander Fougner
2016-02-23 17:34         ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-02-23 18:09           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-02-23 17:44 ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-02-24 22:32   ` Henk Slager
2016-02-24 22:46     ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
     [not found]     ` <ce805cd7-422c-ab6a-fbf8-18a304aa640d@mokrynskyi.com>
2016-02-25  1:04       ` Henk Slager
2016-03-15  0:47         ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-03-15 23:11           ` Henk Slager
2016-03-16  3:37             ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-03-16  4:18               ` Chris Murphy
2016-03-16  4:23                 ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-03-16  6:51                   ` Chris Murphy
2016-03-16 11:53                     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-03-16 20:58                       ` Chris Murphy
2016-03-16  4:22               ` Chris Murphy
2016-03-17  7:00               ` Duncan
2016-03-18 14:22                 ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-05-27  1:57                   ` Nazar Mokrynskyi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-22 19:39 Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-02-16  4:44 Nazar Mokrynskyi
2016-02-16  9:10 ` Duncan
2016-02-18 18:19 ` Henk Slager

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