XFS hangs and freezes with LSI 9265-8i controller on high i/o

[Michael Monnerie]

Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012, 13:59:34 schrieb Andre Noll:
> Here's what gives best performance. Of course these are also the most
> risky settings, so use with care:
> 
>         Current Cache Policy: WriteBack, ReadAdaptive, Cached, Write
> Cache OK if Bad BBU, Disk Cache Policy: Enabled

I wanted to comment on the original posting, but it fits here too. Aside 
from this performance perspective, in order to have a system that 
survives crashes and powerouts, better use:
Disk (Write) Cache: disabled (is that Disk Cache Policy for writes, or 
read+writes?)
Write Cache DISABLED if Bad BBU 
While turning off disk write caches costs some performance always, 
disabling the controller write cache if the bbu is dead makes the server 
only slower during bbu outages, but at least it will survive a crash 
then.
It depends on your needs, but I don't know an admin with a +40TB storage 
that says "doesn't matter if it breaks, I'll restore from backup", as 
even with disk2disk backup that takes some time.

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Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc

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