From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Kasper Sandberg <postmaster@metanurb.dk>
Cc: "Gabor Gombas" <gombasg@sztaki.hu>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
"Kristleifur Daðason" <kristleifur@gmail.com>,
Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Subject: Re: Disappointing performance of copy (MD raid + XFS)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:53:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B27BF03.6090602@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260895872.7209.46.camel@localhost>
Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:26 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:41:32AM +0100, Asdo wrote:
>>> I have checked the other problem I had which I was mentioning, that I
> <snip>
>>> Also with noalign and rotorstep at 255 the stripe_cache_size stays
>>> usually in the lower half (below 16000 out of 32000) while with defaults
>>> it's stuck for most of the time at the maximum and processes are stuck
>>> sleeping in MD locks for this reason.
>> That really does sound like a misaligned filesystem - the stripe
>> cache will grow larger the more RMW cycles that need to be
>> performed...
> Sorry to interrupt, I would very much like to see if my array/xfs is
> properly aligned and all that stuff which has been mentioned inhere,
> could any of you please post the things required to check? filesystem is
> straight on md raid6, debian lenny.
>
>
> <snip>
>
use xfs_info on your mountpoint, and compare the stripe unit and width
to what md tells you. xfs_info stripe unit/width output is in fs blocks
units.
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-15 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-10 0:39 Disappointing performance of copy (MD raid + XFS) Asdo
2009-12-10 0:57 ` Asdo
2009-12-10 1:16 ` Asdo
2009-12-10 4:16 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-12-11 1:41 ` Asdo
2009-12-11 3:20 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-12-11 3:26 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <1260895872.7209.46.camel@localhost>
2009-12-15 16:53 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-12-10 7:28 ` Gabor Gombas
2009-12-10 9:44 ` Kristleifur Daðason
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