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Re: Speeding up XFS

To: Bruce Guenter <lists-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Speeding up XFS
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 16:44:18 +0200
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040426165155.GA19148@xxxxx> (Bruce Guenter's message of "Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:51:55 -0600")
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Bruce Guenter <lists-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> So far, XFS with an external journal has by far the best delivery rate.
> However, as the filesystem fills and delivery concurrency increases, the
> time required to list, read and delete the delivered files slows down to
> unacceptable levels.  Is there anything I can do, settings to modify,
> patches to try, to improve this behavior?

Did you try it with elevator=deadline ?  Maybe you are just seeing
elevator starvation.  The default anticipatory elevator adds 
artificial latencies for better throughput.

-Andi


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