On Dienstag, 9. August 2011 Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:10:48PM +0200, Michael Monnerie
<michael.monnerie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > First of all, please calm down. Getting personal is not bringing us
> > anywhere.
>
> Well, it's not me who's getting personal, so...?
A single rant from a dev shouldn't hurt one too much. He might have been
sitting in front of some code during 72 hours, his eyes already being in
16:9 format staring at a weird bug... It's OK to strike back once, but
then be cool again and work at the problem.
> As has been reported on this list, this option is really harmful on
> current xfs - in my case, it lead to xfs causing ENOSPC even when the
> disk was 40% empty (~188gb).
Was this the "NFS optimization" stuff? I don't like that either.
> Well, if it were one fragment, you could read that in 4-5 seconds, at
> 374 fragments, it's probably around 6-7 seconds. Thats not harmful,
> but if you extrapolate this to a few gigabytes and a lot of files,
> it becomes quite the overhead.
True, if you have to read tons of log files all day. That's not my
normal use case, so I didn't bother about that until now.
> That allocsize option is no longer reasonable with newer kernels, as
> the kernel will reserve 64m diskspace even for 1kb files
> indefinitely.
Just "as long as the inode is cached" or something, I remember that
"echo 3 >drop_caches" cleans that up. Still ugly, I'd say.
> If you find a way of recreating files without appending to them, let
> me know.
Seems we have a different meaning of "append". For me, append is when an
existing file is re-opened, and data added just to the end of it.
> > And maybe he could use it for optimizations. Is there any tool on
> > Linux to record such I/O patterns?
>
> I presume strace would do, but thats where the "lot of work" comes
> in. If there is a ready-to-use tool, that would of course make it
> easy.
It's a pity that such a generic tool doesn't existing. I can't believe
that. Doesn't anybody have such a tool at hand?
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