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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: "Hammer, Marcus" <Marcus.Hammer@auma.com>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Strange problems with xfs an SLESS11 SP2
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 11:07:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120511160719.GA16099@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CBD2D5A5.7C6B%Marcus.Hammer@auma.com>

Hey Marcus,

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:41:41PM +0200, Hammer, Marcus wrote:
...
> So my question is what has changed from 2.6 kernels 3.0 kernels, which can
> explain this massive increase of metadata. (I did a defrag and we had
> sometimes over 140.000 extends to one inode).
> 
> I am completely confused and do now know how to handle this. Perhaps somebody
> can help me to fix this problem or to understand what happens here….  I also
> talked with some netapp engineers and they said,  I should ask at xfs.org.

You should also open a case with SuSE.

> One the filesystem are about 727 CISAM Files (IDX -> Index Files and DAT –>
> DATA Files). There are ten 15 GB Files on which some small content is often
> changed by the ERP system. The rest of the files are lower than 400 MB.  We
> encounter this problem since the upgrade to SLES11 SP2 and the new kernel
> 3.0. (By the way we had to disable the transparent hugepages support in
> kernel 3.0, because of kernel crashes ;) - but this is a different story… )

So when you upgraded you left the filesystems in place.  This is not a
dump/restore situation, and the increased fragmentation that you're seeing has
happened with subsequent runs of your application, correct?

-Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11 12:41 Strange problems with xfs an SLESS11 SP2 Hammer, Marcus
2012-05-11 16:07 ` Ben Myers [this message]
2012-05-11 16:36 ` Stefan Ring
2012-05-12  4:09 ` Eric Sandeen

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