From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m92E98Nx030168 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 07:09:09 -0700 Received: from mail.gmx.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with SMTP id 4BC0C135CDB5 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 07:10:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by cuda.sgi.com with SMTP id AQ2QhQSIdeD0xCmx for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:10:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Tom" Subject: Which XFS-options for best performance in my case? Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:10:33 +0300 Message-ID: <001d01c92498$a4bd7b40$ee3871c0$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Hello dear list members, I am setting up a fileserver with the following specs: . Hardware RAID 6 (3Ware 9650SE-12, 8-lane-PCIe) with a stripe size of 64kB, write cache enabled . 12 Harddisks, 1 Terrabyte and 32MB cache each, 7200 RPM . Motherboard: ASUS P5BV-E/4L . CPU: Intel Core2Quad 2,4 GHz (Q6600) . RAM: 2x2 GB DDRII ECC 800MHz . OS: Linux openSUSE 11 - 64 Bit . Kernel: 2.6.25.16-0.1-default . Filesystem of relevant data partition: XFS . Size of relevant data partition: 9 Terrabyte . The data hosted on this partition is going to be served via 4 1-Gigabit-Network-cards to Windows Vista-64-SP1 clients via Samba 3.2.3-0.1 After having fine tuned the RAID-controller and the kernel settings, I am reaching the following results: Read 465 MB/s; Write 296 MB/s, which I benchmarked with "sync; bonnie++ -u 0 -r 4096 -b -d /name_of_the_mounted_partition". These figures are not all to good. I had formatted the partition with the openSUSE installation tool ("YAST"). This uses: - Block size in bytes: auto - Inode size: auto - Percentage of inode space: auto - Inode aligned: auto .. and mounts the partition in the fstab with "defaults, 1, 2" Question: Are there any settings/options/tweaks with which I can increase the XFS-filesystem's performance? The server is connected to a UPS-battery (Uninterruptible power supply). The RAID controller has a own battery pack attached, which keeps any cached writings in the controller's memory, should the system hang or the power be disconnected for any reason (but this battery only lasts for a couple of hours). Above everything else stands SECURITY. I can't afford to lose/corrupt any data on this server. So please tell me if one of the proposed tweaks should be risky, or what the risks are. Thank you for any piece of advice/information! Best regards Tom [[HTML alternate version deleted]]