Block size does not matter on Linux . 256KB on read prefetch (read ahead).

Best regards,
Vladimir Rodionov
Principal Platform Engineer
Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com
e-mail: [email protected]

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From: lars hofhansl [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 10:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Slow Get Performance (or how many disk I/O does it take for one 
non-cached read?)

Hmm... Interesting. I expected there to be a better improvement from smaller 
blocks.

So it's really just IOPS (and block size does not matter), in which case, yes, 
HBase checksum will save you 50% IOPS for each data block (and since index 
blocks are cache) it'll save 50% total IOPS.



________________________________
 From: Jan Schellenberger <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2014 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Slow Get Performance (or how many disk I/O does it take for one 
non-cached read?)


I've experimented with the block size.  Here are results:
4k - 60reads/sec  - 1.2GB totalStaticIndexSize
8k - 80reads/sec  - 660MB totalStaticIndexSize
16k - 90reads/sec  - 330MB totalStaticIndexSize
and previously
64k - 80reads/sec - ~100mb totalStaticIndexSize


Also, I turned off caching and you are correct, the index blocks seem to be
cached always - the blockCachedSize grows until it reaches
totalStaticIndexSize and then stops growing.  If you turn caching on, it
will grow until the maxHeap * blockCacheSize (.4 in my case).

I saw no performance difference between caching off/on so I guess off is
fine.

Yes, I always do a major_compact before testing.

I think this probably concludes my question - I will try to upgrade to a
newer hbase version to get the CRC32/HDFS check fix and we will probably
have to evaluate SSD's.

Cheers, everyone.




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