From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Balance performance problem with 3.14.1
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 15:07:40 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$bfb68$5387197d$eb4cee58$e8e950f0@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 201405081950.23922.russell@coker.com.au
Russell Coker posted on Thu, 08 May 2014 19:50:23 +1000 as excerpted:
> I've got a server/workstation (KDE desktop and file server) running
> kernel 3.14.1 from the Debian package 3.14-trunk-amd64.
>
> It was running well until I decided to do a full balance of the BTRFS
> RAID-1 array of 3TB SATA disks (which hadn't been balanced before due to
> previous kernels performing badly with scrub or balance). I canceled
> the balance after about 5 days when it had been claiming to be about 65%
> done for a day while doing a lot of disk IO.
>
> After canceling the balance the performance of the array has been poor.
Not much help, but two comments:
1) I've seen other reports of performance problems after balance. Nobody
seems to have a good reason as to why a balance might do that.
2) I've NOT seen anything like that, here. However, my btrfs are all
rather small, under 50 GiB.
(FWIW, it /still/ seems weird to me calling a GB "small". It doesn't
seem all /that/ long ago that I bought my first 1 GB drive, and it sure
wasn't small nor inexpensive then! I guess I've officially joined the
computer old-timers!)
--
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-08 9:50 Balance performance problem with 3.14.1 Russell Coker
2014-05-08 15:07 ` Duncan [this message]
2014-05-08 16:10 ` Josef Bacik
2014-05-12 2:17 ` Russell Coker
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2014-05-08 11:47 Tomasz Chmielewski
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