Annnnnnd... responding to myself yet again. (Have I overflowed
some sort of netiquette stack yet?)
BTW, I'm not subscribed, but I am monitoring the web archive for
responses. Still, CC'ing me with responses would be great. ;)
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:19:43PM -0500,
Andrew Klaassen wrote:
> Responding to myself again, with more details...
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:50:13PM -0500,
> Andrew Klaassen wrote:
>
> > I've been experiencing *very* slow sustained write ( < .5MB/sec)
> > using 2.4.20-20.9.XFS1.3.1smp on a dual-Xeon box with a 3ware
> > 7506 card in JBOD mode. Software RAID 5. No such problems with
> > Ext3 ( > 20MB/sec sustained write) with the same kernel on the
> > same software RAID 5 device.
>
> I got those results using fs-bench:
>
> http://h2np.net/tools/fs-bench.tar.gz
I notice that fs-bench works by filling the filesystem with
bazillions and bazillions of ~100KB files. Would that have an
impact on XFS performance?
Andrew Klaassen
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