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* Tuning XFS for real time audio on a laptop with encrypted LVM
@ 2010-05-21  2:16 Pedro Ribeiro
  2010-05-21  4:14 ` Dave Chinner
  2010-05-22 13:22 ` Eric Sandeen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Pedro Ribeiro @ 2010-05-21  2:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs

Hi all,

I was wondering what is the best scheduler for my use case given my
current hardware.

I have a laptop with a fast Core 2 duo at 2.26 and a nice amount of
ram (4GB) which I use primarily for real time audio (though without a
-rt kernel). All my partitions are XFS under LVM which itself is
contained on a LUKS partition (encrypted with AES 128).

CFQ currently does not perform very well and causes a lot of thrashing
and high latencies when I/O usage is high. Changing it to the noop
scheduler solves some of the problems and makes it more responsive.
Still performance is a bit of a let down: it takes 1m30s to unpack the
linux-2.6.34 tarball and a massive 2m30s to rm -r.
I have lazy-count=1, noatime, logbufs=8, logbsize=256k and a 128m log.

Is there any tunable I should mess with to solve this? And what do you
think of my scheduler change (I haven't tested it that much to be
honest)?

Regards,
Pedro

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2010-05-21  2:16 Tuning XFS for real time audio on a laptop with encrypted LVM Pedro Ribeiro
2010-05-21  4:14 ` Dave Chinner
2010-05-21  6:25   ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-05-21 11:29     ` Pedro Ribeiro
2010-05-21 13:45       ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-05-22 12:21         ` Pedro Ribeiro
2010-05-22 22:13           ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-05-22 13:22 ` Eric Sandeen
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