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Re: Best Logfile size for XFS



Hi,


Well, I don't think you should worry about performance in this case.
There's only metadata going into the logfile and considering the number
of files you're going to have on that partition (less then 20) you'll
hardly have a write into the log. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

On the other hand you could play with the realtime option, but I
don't know if it's been implemented yet or not.

Ionut


On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 10:07:34AM -0500, Roger wrote:
> ok. saw something in the archives about logfile size asked within the
> past 2 days but it really didn't give any clues to this question.
> 
> As the FAQ states, specifing an alternate logfile size (and also other
> options) at the time of mkfs, can increase performance.
> 
> here's a quick layout of my partitions on (using an add-on Promise
> Ultra100 ide controller card):
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hde1             576M   69M  507M  12% /
> /dev/hde5             4.3G  2.3G  2.0G  53% /home
> /dev/hde6             207M  280k  206M   1% /tmp
> /dev/hde7             3.0G  2.5G  571M  82% /usr
> /dev/hde8             787M   84M  704M  11% /var
> /dev/hdf5             6.2G  2.8G  3.4G  45% /usr/src/RPM
> /dev/hdg6              16G   14G  3.3G  80% /mnt/win_c2
> /dev/hdg5              21G   33M   19G   1% /extra1
> /dev/hdf6             3.4G  3.3G  165M  96% /mnt/win_d2
> 
> I'm mainly concerned about /dev/hdg5 (/extra1).  I'm using it for video
> capturing and am curious as to optimizing it for write performance.
> 
> Logfile size recommendations? other options?
> 
> Since they SGI touches on this in the "howto make an xfs", i'm sure
> there will be plenty of others asking the same question i am...but with
> raid & larger hdd's. ;-)



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