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Re: Parallel read performance crawls

To: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan <ananth@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Parallel read performance crawls
From: KELEMEN Peter <fuji@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:07:10 +0200
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In-reply-to: <3B0D2EB0.CFF8F78B@sgi.com>; from ananth@sgi.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:54:24AM -0700
Organization: ELTE Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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* Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan (ananth@xxxxxxx) [20010524 08:54]:

> FWIW, in the following, I see not only read performance drop
> with 2 bonnies, but also re-write. Are you using the same disk
> as the target for the 2 bonnies? If so, I would strongly suspect
> disk head contention.  Delayed allocation/writes in the block
> output case seem to have a positive effect: clusters of writes
> are fairly large; there is no such clustering at the higher
> level for reads (re-write is read+write iirc).

I'm using a 80G LVM volume striped across two disks.  ReiserFS
shows 18M(write)/8M(read) performance when run in parallel.  I
will try to restructure my LVM setup.

Peter

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