[PERFORM] fragmention issue with ext4: e4defrag?

2014-07-02 Thread Marc Mamin
Hello, Has anyone some experience using defragmentation tools on Linux against tablespaces ? we are facing fragmentation problems with postgres instances having a few TB of data. ( RAID 5 ) I/O througput decreased from 300MB/s to 160. - We first moved some schemas to separate servers.

Re: [PERFORM] fragmention issue with ext4: e4defrag?

2014-07-02 Thread Kevin Grittner
Marc Mamin m.ma...@intershop.de wrote: I/O througput decreased from 300MB/s to 160. I don't have any experience with ext4 defrag tools, but just wanted to point out that the difference in performance you cite above is about the same as the difference between accessing data on the outer (and