Can you maybe give the output of xfs_info on all the mounted partitions and the
mount options that you used.
The output of df -h will also help.
Paul
Mikes work account wrote:
> April 25, 2002
>
> Last weekend, I installed the 2.4.9-12SGI_XFS_1.0.2smp rpm on my Linux box
> which was running RedHat 7.1 2.4.9-12smp.
> I had no difficultywith the install except that the mkfs.xfs file was
> missing and I wondered why. Si I copied it from another box I had running
> an XFS filesystem which had loaded and configured without problems.
>
> I was able to then install and XFS filesystem and was able to automount the
> filesystem without errors.
>
> The problem I have is that my system performance has degraded since the XFS
> install. From all that I have read, my performance should have improved.
>
> We run about 80 to 100 logins over a thin client to this server and although
> it has been busy we have never experienced this level of degredation in
> performance.
>
> I did not install any of the patches and am not sure I know which I should
> install in the first place.
>
> Can you offer any assistance into why my system should be slower than it
> was. I have plenty of space and ram and am running on an IBM Netfinity 5000
> with dual 450 processors.
>
> My supervisor wants me to go back to the ext2 FS and I am reluctant to do so
> because I feel I should be getting better performance with XFS if I can just
> get it tuned.
>
> Thank you in advance, You prompt attention will be appreciated.
>
> Michael C. Rock
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