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From: Joe Landman <joe.landman@gmail.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS: Abysmal write performance because of excessive seeking (allocation groups to blame?)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:32:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F844474.3010005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxjCEzRa7CpbA9iESEDjmWQMsJTjkWHJj69ADOXDa4CiRpx3w@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/10/2012 10:02 AM, Stefan Ring wrote:
>> And is XFS aligned to the RAID 6?
>>
>> What does xfs_info display on it?
>
> Yes, it’s aligned.
>
> meta-data=/dev/mapper/vg_data-lvhome isize=256    agcount=4,
> agsize=73233656 blks
>           =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
> data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=292934624, imaxpct=5
>           =                       sunit=8      swidth=32 blks
> naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
> log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=143040, version=2
>           =                       sectsz=512   sunit=8 blks, lazy-count=1
> realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
>
> I changed the stripe size to 32kb in the meantime. This way, it
> performs slightly better.

try 128k to 512k for stripe size.  And try to increase your agcount by 
(nearly) an order of magnitude.


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-05 18:10 XFS: Abysmal write performance because of excessive seeking (allocation groups to blame?) Stefan Ring
2012-04-05 19:56 ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-05 22:41   ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-06 14:36   ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-06 15:37     ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-07 13:33       ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-05 21:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-06  1:09   ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-06  8:25   ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-07 18:57     ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-04-10 14:02       ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-10 14:32         ` Joe Landman [this message]
2012-04-10 15:56           ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-10 18:13         ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-04-10 20:44         ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-10 21:00           ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-05 22:32 ` Roger Willcocks
2012-04-06  7:11   ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-06  8:24     ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-05 23:07 ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-06  0:13   ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-06  7:27     ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-06 23:28       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-07  7:27         ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-07  8:53           ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-07 14:57           ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-09 11:02             ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-09 12:48               ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-09 12:53                 ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-09 13:03                   ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-09 23:38               ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-10  6:11                 ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-10 20:29                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-10 20:43                     ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-10 21:29                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-09  0:19           ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-09 11:39             ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-09 21:47               ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-07  8:49         ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-08 20:33           ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-08 21:45             ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-09  5:27               ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-09 12:45                 ` Emmanuel Florac
2012-04-13 19:36                   ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-14  7:32                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-14 11:30                       ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-09 14:21         ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2012-04-10 19:30           ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-11 22:19             ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2012-04-07 16:50       ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-07 17:10         ` Joe Landman
2012-04-08 21:42           ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-09  5:13             ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-09 11:52               ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-10  7:34                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-10 13:59                   ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-09  9:23             ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-09 23:06               ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-06  0:53   ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-06  7:32     ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-06  5:53   ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-06 15:35     ` Peter Grandi
2012-04-10 14:05       ` Stefan Ring
2012-04-07 19:11     ` Peter Grandi

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