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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Question regarding performance on big files.
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:03:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9BCEBB.4030800@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9B161A.1010301@opencubetech.com>

Mathieu AVILA put forth on 9/23/2010 3:55 AM:

> The small writes are amortized in the stream of data writes from the
> application, and the application is not frozen.
> (so you were right: there was a page cache issue)

Given what you've described about the streaming write behavior of your
application, I'd suggest you rewrite it and use O_DIRECT writes to
bypass the page cache completely.  You may also want to look into using
the XFS realtime subvolume feature.

-- 
Stan

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-20 17:04 Question regarding performance on big files Mathieu AVILA
2010-09-20 19:48 ` 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 [this message]

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