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On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:11 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: |
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> Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> > Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? |
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> > I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously |
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> > 15-20MB/s. |
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> > I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and I've tried |
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> > re-mounting the FS w/ "nobarriers" but the performance didn't improve. |
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> > I've already fscked the fs w/ the latest xfsprogs (> 2.8.0) to no good |
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> > effect. |
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> > Anyone has any clue or suggestions? Else, I'm gonna go and change the FS |
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> > back to EXT3. |
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> > BTW: it's my /home which is XFS which houses GIGs of Mbox files as well |
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> > as VMware images. |
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> What is your kernel version? (could be important). |
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I've already updated it to the latest based on the suspend2 version. |
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$uname -r |
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2.6.17-suspend2-r4 |
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$eix xfsprogs |
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Available versions: 2.7.3 2.7.11 2.8.10 |
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Installed: 2.8.10 |
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> I'm using 2.7.11 on kernel 2.6.16, write performance is reasonably good |
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If not mistaken, the issue, (or barriers if not mistaken) was introduced |
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in the 2.6.17 kernel series. |
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the 2.6.16 series wasn't affected. (I could be wrong, I don't have net |
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access so, I can't verify) |
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