Re: [Ocfs2-users] Significant Slowdown when writing and deleting files at the same time

2013-03-29 Thread Peter Grandi
 I have a 2 node test system sharing a 2TB volume with a
 journal size of 256MB.

 I can easily trigger the slowdown by starting to processes to
 write a 10GB file each, then I delete a different large file
 (7GB+) while the other processes are writing.  The slowdown is
 significant and very disruptive.

 Not only did it take over 3 minutes to delete the file, every
 else with pause when entering that directory too. [ ... ]

Thanks for confirming that the performance of OCFS2 is quite
good even under such demanding conditions.

Data structures with mandatory internal locking with high
latency are very difficult to parallelize, and OCFS2 as you
report does a pretty good job of that despite the contention of
three metadata intensive activities.

[ ... ]

 I would like any ideas that would provide smoother performance

The performance is pretty good and smooth, as both the speed and
latencies are about as good as it can get under such conditions.

 of the OCFS2 volume and somehow eliminate the long pauses
 during deletes.

Fund a large research programme to figure out whether it is
feasible to have large overlapping transactions without
interference in a filesystem with mandatory internal locking
with fairly high latency.

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Re: [Ocfs2-users] Significant Slowdown when writing and deleting files at the same time

2013-03-29 Thread Sunil Mushran
Are you mounting -o writeback?


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Andy ary...@allantgroup.com wrote:

 I have been having performance issues from time to time on our
 production ocfs2 volumes, so I set up a test system to try to reproduce
 what I was seeing on the production systems.  This is what I found out:

 I have a 2 node test system sharing a 2TB volume with a journal size of
 256MB.  I can easily trigger the slowdown by starting to processes to
 write a 10GB file each, then I delete a different large file (7GB+)
 while the other processes are writing.  The slowdown is significant and
 very disruptive.  Not only did it take over 3 minutes to delete the
 file, every else with pause when entering that directory too.  A du
 command with stop and nfs access to that file system will think the
 server is not responding.  Under heavier amounts of writes, I have had a
 delete takes 13mins for a 8GB file, and NFS mounts return I/O errors.
 We often deal with large files, so this situation above is fairly common.

 I would like any ideas that would provide smoother performance of the
 OCFS2 volume and somehow eliminate the long pauses during deletes.

 Thanks,

 Andy

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