Re: Fwd: Re: RAID performance is not too well....

From: Al Boldi
Date: Mon Jul 09 2007 - 11:31:17 EST


Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > >I have an application that creates some 228 thousand files,
> > >spread over about 4000 directories. Total is not more than
> > >1.3Gb. (I'm not sure, and I don't care if it's 10% or 90% of
> > >that number)
> > >
> > >Anyway, I've loaded all of the 1.3Gb into the cache (the machine
> > >has 8Gb of RAM), so that only writes need to take place.
> > >
> > >After a while the machine goes into a routine of writing
> > >about 500 to 1000kbytes per second.
> > >
> > >Sync seems to take a long time:

The as-iosched has a sync bug, and if you are using that, then try deadline
instead.


Thanks!

--
Al

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/