xfs
[Top] [All Lists]

Performance drop in Linux 2.4.19-XFS 1.2 ?

To: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Performance drop in Linux 2.4.19-XFS 1.2 ?
From: Ravi Wijayaratne <ravi_wija@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

We are seeing a %15 performance drop when we move from XFS 1.1 to 1.2.
Here are some of our particulars:
We have been testing the performance of Linux-2.4.19 and XFS 1.2 with NetBench.
We compared the performance with that of Linux-2.4.18 and XFS 1.1.
We have been running Samba 3.0.


The following are the configuration settings:

RAID config 0 or 5: 4 drives with chunk size of 64

xfs_info.sh /hd/vol_mnt0/
meta-data=/hd/vol_mnt0           isize=2048   agcount=74, agsize=1048560 blks
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=76644352, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=16     swidth=16 blks, unwritten=0
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096  
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=9360 version=2
         =                       sunit=16 blks
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0

We are running software RAID 0 and 5 (md). The performance numbers were 
obtained after the
RAID sync was completed.

For Linux 2.4.18-XFS-1.1 case we used log version 1.  
For Linux 2.4.19-XFS-1.2 case we used log version 2.

At mount time we changed the internal log size from 64k-256k, but that change 
did
not show any difference.

We see about a 15-20% drop in performance. To rule out the file system we 
created
an ext2 file system on the same volume and compared the perofrmance. We see that
ext2 with Linux 2.4.19 performs much better that Linux 2.4.18.

Has the throughput of XFS 1.2 been shown to be less than that of XFS 1.1 with
generic benchmarks? 

Are there any patches since the final release of xfs 1.2 that will improve XFS 
performance? 
Are there any XFS 1.2 specific tuning we can do to ramp up the performance?

Some insight is much appreciated

Ravi


=====
------------------------------
Ravi Wijayaratne

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>