Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:41:42 +0100
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: rewrite very slow
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Test configuration:
Linux kernel 2.6.23.1 #1 SMP
2x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz with HT

iSCSI storage (1TB - 7 sata disks in RAID6, 2GB cache controler)


Yes, your "test" works fine:
file1:/mnt/hosting/test# time ./test

real    0m0.334s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s


Is there any way to get it work for perl/php/other scripts/programs?

DS


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:36:06PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> DS wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I need some help to tunning my storage.
> 
> ...
> > TIME 43 sekund
> 
> 
> What kernel?  when I test on my 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 and 2.6.22.5 boxes, I
> see 2 and 7 seconds for rewrite, respectively.
> 
> but granted, on ext3 I get 0 seconds for every run.
> 
> Also the difference appears to be O_TRUNC (which the perl script does);
> if I code it in c:
> 
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> 
> void main(void)
> {
>         int i;
>         int fd;
>         char file[4];
> 
>         for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
>                 sprintf(file, "%d.txt", i);
>                 fd = open(file, O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC, 0644);
>                 write(fd, "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa\n");
>                 close(fd);
>         }
> }
> 
> rewrite is a bit slower w/ O_TRUNC in place, plenty fast w/o it.  Not
> sure about the xfs/ext3 difference... this is probably a side-effect of
> flushes xfs put into place on truncate (IIRC?)
> 
> -Eric
> 
>