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Re: Speeding up XFS

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Subject: Re: Speeding up XFS
From: Tim Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:12:43 +1000
In-reply-to: <200404261726.i3QHQ8Aj298772@zhadum.americas.sgi.com>; from overby@sgi.com on Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:26:08PM -0500
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Glen Overby wrote:
> On April 26, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Some generic suggestions:
> 
>  - more log buffers than fewer (try 8)
> 
>  - It looks like you're doing a lot of metadata intense operations, so
>    you should try a larger log buffer size which are available in
>    version 2 logs.  I wrote version 2 logs, along with some other
>    changes, to speed up metadata intense benchmarks.  I think 128mb
>    log buffers work on linux. 
> 
Up to 256Kb log buffers on Linux should work now.
(i.e. 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K).

>    Stay away from log striping.  The last I heard, it still doesn't work.
If anyone still has problems with log striping then please let us 
(me in particular) know.

Thanks,
Tim.


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