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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Many-metadata performance still at a loss
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:51:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D78F364.5000000@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1103101507120.5379@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

Jan Engelhardt put forth on 3/10/2011 8:14 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Between 2.6.33 and 2.6.37 there was a lot of interesting announcements 
> with regards to XFS performance. However, now that I booted into 
> 2.6.37.2, I still see the metadata slowness from earlier.
> (Basically `time (tar -xf linux-2.6.37.tar.gz; sync)` - ext4 gets the 
> job done in like 15-20 seconds, xfs is still syncing after 11 minutes.)
> 
> Was there something I missed?

Yes.  You have to add "delaylog" to your mount options to enable the
metadata performance enhancement.  It won't be the default setting until
2.6.39.

-- 
Stan

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 14:14 Many-metadata performance still at a loss Jan Engelhardt
2011-03-10 15:51 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-03-11  1:10 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-11  1:56   ` Jan Engelhardt

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