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From: Karsten Weiss <K.Weiss@science-computing.de>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bad ext4 sync performance on 16 TB GPT partition
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:33:22 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1002261228570.18232@wong.science-computing.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1002260926140.18232@wong.science-computing.de>

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Karsten Weiss wrote:

> However, the sync performance is fine if we ...
> 
> * use xfs or
> * disable the ext4 journal or
> * disable ext4 extents (but with enabled journal)

ext3 is okay, too:

# /usr/bin/time bash -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/large/10GB_1 bs=1M count=10000 && sync"
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10485760000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 39.7188 seconds, 264 MB/s
0.03user 21.00system 1:47.24elapsed 19%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+788minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Compare:

XFS:    57s
ext4: 7m26s

-- 
Karsten Weiss

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26 10:18 Bad ext4 sync performance on 16 TB GPT partition Karsten Weiss
2010-02-26 11:33 ` Karsten Weiss [this message]
2010-02-26 11:46 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-26 15:47   ` Karsten Weiss
2010-02-26 17:49     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-03-01  8:57       ` Karsten Weiss
2010-03-01 16:22         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-03-12 11:37           ` Karsten Weiss
2010-03-12 15:20             ` Eric Sandeen

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