At 12:57 18-2-2004 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
I've pretty much ruled out hardware. I've swapped the 3ware and rebuilt
the array, and the disks all show good SMART data.
Have you considered raid 10 configuration? It will about halve the storage
space but increase IO by a multiple.
You could flip the cover and see if the disks are pushed hard by the
controller (leds on the 3ware controller). Although from what you described
above it's probably a directory growing a bit on the large side.
In narrowing down the problem, it seems that one particular (large)
directory is the main culprit. This dir is 471,401,788 KB big and has
3,377,520 files (~140KB/file average). Is the large number of files the
entire culprit? If so, is there anything I can do to alleviate the
problem? I already 'mount -o logbufs=8'. Here's xfs_info on that
partition:
meta-data=/data isize=256 agcount=227, agsize=1048576 blks
= sectsz=512
Perhaps creating the filessystem with a larger inode size like 512. You
could also use version logs instead of version which mostly helped software
raid 5 although this might help hardware as well.
Cheers
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Seth
I don't make sense, I don't pretend to either. Questions?
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