On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:27:02AM +0200, Benoît Canet wrote:
> ZFS is also used on ubuntu.
>
So what? It does not changes the fact that writing using write() system
call does not go through out write page cache on OSv. It does go through
Linux' page cache on Linux.
> What make me think about page cache is the fact that ubuntu issue minimal
> write of 4K.
On Linux every write (if not O_DIRECT) goes through the page cache.
>
> They store their data on an NFS server.
You mean VM's disk is on NFS server and they enables cache = none?
Otherwise tcpdump is meaningless.
>
> Best regards
>
> Benoît
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Gleb Natapov <g...@scylladb.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:14:49AM +0200, Benoît Canet wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am working on a slowness bug affecting the EU project.
> > >
> > > In this test HDFS a java application does a write test 7 times slower
> > than
> > > Linux.
> > >
> > > The people doing the test sent me some tcpdump traces and it show that
> > OSv
> > > is doing
> > > small 1 sectors writes while Linux is doing at minima 4KB write.
> > >
> > > So I am starting to suspect that this slowness is due to the fact that
> > OSv
> > > does not have a page
> > > cache enabled that could coalesce the writes.
> > >
> > > Gleb: Should the write page cache be different from arc ? Or should we
> > rely
> > > on ARC for this ?
> > >
> > Why do you think page cache is involved at all? How do they write? The
> > program you implemented last time to demonstrate the problem does not
> > use our write cache at all.
> >
> > The fact that they use tcpdump to track their writes make me believe
> > that they do not use XFS and our page cache works only with XFS,
> > anything else does not have any page cache at all.
> >
> > --
> > Gleb.
> >
--
Gleb.
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