Sheng,

How big is your each XFS volume? We noticed if its over 4TB hdfs won't pick
it up.


2011/5/6 Ferdy Galema <ferdy.gal...@kalooga.com>

>  No unfortunately not, we couldn't because of our kernel versions.
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> On 05/06/2011 04:00 AM, ShengChang Gu wrote:
>
> Many thanks.
>
> We use xfs all the time.Have you try the ext4 filesystem?
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> 2011/5/6 Ferdy Galema <ferdy.gal...@kalooga.com>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've performed tests for ext3 and xfs filesystems using different
>> settings. The results might be useful for anyone else.
>>
>> The datanode cluster consists of 15 slave nodes, each equipped with 1Gbit
>> ethernet, X3220@2.40GHz quadcores and 4x1TB disks. The disk read speeds
>> vary from about 90 to 130MB/s. (Tested using hdparm -t).
>>
>> Hadoop: Cloudera CDH3u0 (4 concurrent mappers / node)
>> OS: Linux version 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 (mockbu...@builder10.centos.org)
>> (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50))
>>
>> #our command
>> for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./hadoop jar ../hadoop-examples-0.20.2-cdh3u0.jar
>> randomwriter -Ddfs.replication=1 /rand$i && ./hadoop fs -rmr /rand$i/_logs
>> /rand$i/_SUCCESS && ./hadoop distcp -Ddfs.replication=1 /rand$i
>> /rand-copy$i; done
>>
>> Our benchmark consists of a standard random-writer job followed by a
>> distcp of the same data, both using a replication of 1. This is to make sure
>> only the disks get hit. Each benchmark is ran several times for every
>> configuration. Because of the occasional hickup, I will list both the
>> average and the fastest times for each configuration. I read the execution
>> times off the jobtracker.
>>
>> The configurations (with exection times in seconds of Avg-writer /
>> Min-writer / Avg-distcp / Min-distcp)
>> ext3-default      158 / 136 / 411 / 343
>> ext3-tuned        159 / 132 / 330 / 297
>> ra1024 ext3-tuned 159 / 132 / 292 / 264
>> ra1024 xfs-tuned  128 / 122 / 220 / 202
>>
>> To explain, ext3-tuned is with tuned mount options
>> [noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback,rw] and ra1024 means a read-ahead buffer
>> of 1024 blocks. The xfs disks are created using mkfs options
>> [size=128m,lazy-count=1] and mount options [noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8].
>>
>> In conclusion it seems that using tuned xfs filesystems combined with
>> increased read-ahead buffers increased our basic hdfs performance with about
>> 10% (random-writer) to 40% (distcp).
>>
>> Hopefully this is useful to anyone. Although I won't be performing more
>> tests soon I'd be happy to provide more details.
>>  Ferdy.
>>
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