Did you check the raw write speed of your devices using dd? When I did
tests in the past I got almost the same speed with XFS like raw. Until you
are sure your devices perform much better, XFS should not be involved too
much.
Simon
> Hi
>
> I am developing a system to stream very large uncompressed videofiles
> which are about 1,5TB.
> I need a bandwith of 195MB/s.
> my system is now:
> kernel: 2.4.18
> xeon 2,4GHz
> 1GB RAM
> 3ware escalade controller 12 s-ata harddisks, seagate barracuda 7200.7 -
> 120GB - SCSI
>
> when I do different tests with bonnie++ I get very good results for a
> 2GB file, readperformance 249mb/s,
> but when the files get larger the speed is going down significantly.
> at 10GB - 216MB/s
> at 100GB - 187MB/s
> at 1TB - 161MB/s
> the write performance stays at 183MB/s any time, up to 1TB.
> As my harddisk have a sustained rate of 32-50 MB/s it should not be the
> case that they influence the results.
> I am now thinking maybe the filesystem influences the result when the
> disks are getting fuller. I thought also about that the logfiles get
> bigger and bigger and that maybe a reason.
>
> I had a look if its possible to switch of the logging completely (there
> is no reason to have it because I just have one file) , but I think its
> not possible with xfs.
>
> Is there a special parameter configuration for having just one file at
> this size (1,5TB)
>
> /Christoph
>
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