Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2008-01-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Changliang Chen wrote: Hi Justin£¬ From your report£¬It looks that the p34-default's behavior is better£¬which item make you consider that the p34-dchinner looks nice£¿ -- Best Regards The re-write and sequential input and output is faster for dchinner. Justin.

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-31 Thread Peter Grandi
Why does mdadm still use 64k for the default chunk size? Probably because this is the best balance for average file sizes, which are smaller than you seem to be testing with? Well average file sizes relate less to chunk sizes than access patterns do. Single threaded sequential reads with

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-31 Thread Richard Scobie
Peter Grandi wrote: In particular if one uses parity-based (not a good idea in general...) arrays, as small chunk sizes (as well as stripe sizes) give a better chance of reducing the frequency of RMW. Thanks for your thoughts - the above was my thinking when I posted. Regards, Richard - To

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Raz
what is nobarrier ? On 12/31/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave's original e-mail: # mkfs.xfs -f -l lazy-count=1,version=2,size=128m -i attr=2 -d agcount=4 dev # mount -o logbsize=256k dev mtpt And if you don't care about filsystem corruption on power loss: # mount -o

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: what is nobarrier ? ... # mount -o logbsize=256k,nobarrier dev mtpt See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Q: How can I address the problem with the write cache? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Richard Scobie
Justin Piszcz wrote: Why does mdadm still use 64k for the default chunk size? Probably because this is the best balance for average file sizes, which are smaller than you seem to be testing with? Regards, Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the