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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfssyncd and disk spin down
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:00:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D1525FB.1010605@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101224060246.GA2308@peter.simplex.ro>

Petre Rodan put forth on 12/24/2010 12:02 AM:

>> fs.xfs.xfssyncd_centisecs	(Min: 100  Default: 3000  Max: 720000)
>> fs.xfs.age_buffer_centisecs	(Min: 100  Default: 1500  Max: 720000)
> 
> just increasing the delay until an inevitable and seemingly redundant disk write is not what I want.
> I was searching for an option to make internal xfs processes not touch the drive after the buffers/log/dirty metadata have been flushed (once).

I'm not a dev Petre but just another XFS user.  This is the best
"solution" I could come up with for your issue.  I assumed this
"unnecessary" regularly scheduled activity was a house cleaning measure
and done intentionally; didn't dawn on me that it may be a bug.

Sorry I wasn't able to fully address your issue.  If/until there is a
permanent fix for this you may want to bump this to 720000 anyway as an
interim measure, if you haven't already, as it should yield a
significantly better situation than what you have now.  You'll at least
get something like ~1400 minutes of sleep per day instead of none,
decreasing your load/unload cycles from ~2880/day to ~120/day, if my
math is correct.

-- 
Stan

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-24 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-23 16:55 xfssyncd and disk spin down Petre Rodan
2010-12-23 19:29 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-23 21:16   ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-24  0:54     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-24  5:15       ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-24  6:02       ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-24 23:00         ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2010-12-25  3:36           ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-25  4:32             ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-24 18:17 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-25 12:09   ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-27  2:19 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-27  6:16   ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-27 14:07     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-27 17:19       ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-31  0:13         ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20 10:01           ` Petre Rodan
2011-01-20 11:06             ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20 12:07               ` Petre Rodan
2011-01-20 13:24                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-20 23:43             ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-10 20:42               ` Petre Rodan
2011-02-10 22:18                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-14 18:04                   ` Brian Duncan
2011-05-31 14:40                     ` Brian Duncan
2011-05-31 15:16                       ` Michael Weissenbacher
2011-06-01 23:37                         ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-11  4:02                           ` Brian Duncan
2011-07-11 14:34                             ` Michael Weissenbacher

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