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From: Mathieu AVILA <mathieu.avila@opencubetech.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Question regarding performance on big files.
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:04:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C979439.7070906@opencubetech.com> (raw)


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  Hello XFS team,

I have run into trouble with XFS, but excuse me if this question has 
been asked a dozens times.

I'm am filling a very big file on a XFS filesystem on Linux that stands 
on a software RAID 0. Performance are very good until I get 2 "holes" 
during which my write stalls for a few seconds.
Mkfs parameters:
mkxfs.xfs -b size 4096 -s size 4096 -d agcount=2 -i size=2048
The RAID0 is done a 2 SATA disks of 500 GB each.

My test is just running "dd" with 8M blocks:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/DATA/big
(/DATA is the XFS file system)

The system is basically a RHEL5 with a 2.6.18 kernel and XFS packages 
from CentOS.

The problem happens 2 times: one time around 210 GB and the second time 
around 688 GB (hole in performance and response time is bigger the 
second time -- around 20 seconds)

Do you have any clue ? Do my mkfs parameters make sense ? The goal here 
is really to have something that is able to store big files at a 
constant throughput -- the test is done on purpose.

-- 
*Mathieu Avila*
IT & Integration Engineer
mathieu.avila@opencubetech.com

OpenCube Technologies http://www.opencubetech.com
Parc Technologique du Canal, 9 avenue de l'Europe
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-20 17:04 Mathieu AVILA [this message]
2010-09-20 19:48 ` Question regarding performance on big files Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-22 10:26   ` Mathieu AVILA
2010-09-22 20:41     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-23  8:55       ` Mathieu AVILA
2010-09-23 22:03         ` Stan Hoeppner

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