Re: [Firebird-devel] Still on the ext4 slowness...

2011-11-17 Thread Philippe Makowski
Hi, I'm a bit puzzled by the results I get I made test on Fedora 16 with Kernel 3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64 on LVM2 Logical Volume of 10G Firebird 2.5.1 Classic hdparm /dev/vg_tests/testfb /dev/vg_tests/testfb: multcount = 0 (off) IO_support= 1 (32-bit) readonly = 0 (off) readahead

Re: [Firebird-devel] Still on the ext4 slowness...

2011-11-17 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
17.11.2011 12:59, Philippe Makowski wrote: I really wonder if we can't get MaxUnflushedWrites or something like that under Linux too I would be curious to do same test with this parameter under Linux It works for all platforms, you just need to uncomment and set it up in firebird.conf.

Re: [Firebird-devel] Still on the ext4 slowness...

2011-11-14 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 14-11-2011 05:31, Vlad Khorsun wrote: My doubt is that we will write more pages than necessary. Imagine small cache (CS) and set of actively modifying pages. Currently we will write them one-by-one when new buffer is required. You offer to write, say, 2 pages at time and replace

Re: [Firebird-devel] Still on the ext4 slowness...

2011-11-13 Thread Vlad Khorsun
On 11/14/11 02:17, Vlad Khorsun wrote: I thought about to change cache_writer in this direction - make it to do mini-flush instead of writting one page at time. But, note, we have no cache_writer thread in CS\SC and we can do a little (almost nothing) when page lock is downgraded