<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How big is the write cache in your RAID array? If the log is the<br>
only thing being written to, and it fits within the cache, then it<br>
can easily push several hundred MB/s of write IO....</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I asked around and people believe the cache is on the order of a few GB and the test ran I was intentionally large enough to overshadow any cache effects, running for about a minute and doing 100K 1K file creates. The disk write data was close to a sustained 475MB/sec and would have easily filled the cache in the first handful of seconds which would have produced enough backpressure to slow down the write rate which it never did.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>On a totally different topic, and if you like we can start a different thread on it, I'd be interested in adding some monitoring stats to collectl for xfs and could use some suggestions of what are the most important.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-mark</div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>