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From: "Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: seekwatcher IO visualization
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:01:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070809220111.24d782cd@gara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070809205355.GB6689@schatzie.adilger.int>

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:53:55 -0600
Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:

> I saw on #linuxfs today some graphs and movies by Chris Mason showing
> the poor IO locality for ext3 compared to btrfs and XFS.  It would be
> interesting to run this with ext4+mballoc+delalloc, and a separate
> one with the FLEXBG feature enabled to see how that improves the
> seeking/locality.
> 
> http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/seekwatcher/
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.
> 

I was planing to use seekwatcher to look at fsck activity when using
FLEX_BG since I'm already seeing noticeable improvements by using this
feature alone.

We can try other workloads and see how ext4 compares.

-JRS

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-10  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-09 20:53 seekwatcher IO visualization Andreas Dilger
2007-08-10  3:01 ` Jose R. Santos [this message]

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