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From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis.kaarsemaker@booking.com>
To: stan@hardwarefreak.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS IO multiplication problem on centos/rhel 6 using hp p420i raid controllers
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:52:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362664376.16657.26.camel@seahawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513899D3.80907@hardwarefreak.com>

On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 07:44 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 3/7/2013 7:33 AM, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> 
> > The "ten times as many bytes" is constant, so it is constantly writing
> > ten times as much data.
> 
> Where in the IO stack are you counting the bytes?  Are 10x as many bytes
> actually hitting the AGs?  I.e. are you consuming 10x more (real--not
> counting preallocation) space in the filesystem?  Or are you simply
> seeing larger IOs in flight per unit time, but the same total amount of
> IO bytes?

I'm counting them with vmstat, iostat and collectl as can be seen in the
various outputs I've sent. I hope that answers your question as I have
no idea how to see what's hitting the AG's.

I am not using ten times as much space, as that wouldn't fit on the
volume.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-07 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-28 14:12 XFS IO multiplication problem on centos/rhel 6 using hp p420i raid controllers Dennis Kaarsemaker
2013-02-28 15:34 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-02-28 19:40 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-06 13:53   ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2013-03-07  3:57     ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-07 10:12       ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2013-03-07 13:10         ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-07 13:33           ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2013-03-07 13:44             ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-07 13:52               ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
2013-03-07 23:00         ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-08  9:09           ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2013-03-08 11:49             ` Dennis Kaarsemaker

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