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On 06/11/2009 10:40 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009 09:33:46 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: |
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>> I tried too but it slows down disk speed to a crawl when there's disk |
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>> activity by an order of magnitude (commands take 3-4 seconds to execute |
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>> while without LVM they give sub-second responses.) |
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> Hmm, that's strange. I've never seen this and I use LVM since it first appeared |
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> on Linux. On Laptops, I even encrypt the logical volumes without a significant |
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> speed impact. |
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It's only there where's disk activity. For example, if I have 4 or more |
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torrents downloading. When that happens, typing "mc" (to start midnight |
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commander) needs about 4 seconds. It's almost instant without LVM. |
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The speed impact on one of my servers (100+ shell users) was dramatic. |
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10 seconds for a simple "ls /" for example. |
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