Fragmentation Issue We Are Having

David Fuller
2012-04-12T01:04:52Z

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We seen to be having an issue whereby our database server
gets to 90% or higher fragmentation. When it gets to this point
we would need to remove form production and defrag using the
xfs_fsr tool. The server does get a lot of writes and reads. Is
there something we can do to reduce the fragmentation or could
this be a result of hard disk tweaks we use or mount options?

here is some fo the tweaks we do:

/bin/echo "512" > /sys/block/sda/queue/read_ahead_kb
/bin/echo "10000" > /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests
/bin/echo "512" > /sys/block/sdb/queue/read_ahead_kb
/bin/echo "10000" > /sys/block/sdb/queue/nr_requests
/bin/echo "noop" > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
/bin/echo "noop" > /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler

Adn here are the mount options on one of our servers:

xfs rw,noikeep,allocsize=256M,logbufs=8,sunit=128,swidth=2304

the sunit and swidth vary on each server based on disk drives.

We do use LVM on the volume where the mysql data is stored
as we need this for snapshotting. Here is an example of a current state:

xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/mapper/vgmysql-lvmysql
actual 42586, ideal 3134, fragmentation factor 92.64%

Regards,
David Fuller

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