Re: io-scheduler tuning for better read/write ratio

From: Ralf Gross
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 03:28:27 EST


Al Boldi schrieb:
> Ralf Gross wrote:
> > The main problem is with bacula. It reads/writes from/to two
> > spoolfiles on the same device.
> >
> > I get the same behavior with 2 dd processes, one reading from disk, one
> > writing to it.
> >
> > Here's the output from dstat (5 sec intervall).
> >
> > --dsk/md1--
> > _read _writ
> > 26M 95M
> > 31M 96M
> > 20M 85M
> > 31M 108M
> > 28M 89M
> > 24M 95M
> > 26M 79M
> > 32M 115M
> > 50M 74M
> > 129M 15k
> > 147M 1638B
> > 147M 0
> > 147M 0
> > 113M 0
> >
> >
> > At the end I stopped the dd process that is writing to the device, so you
> > can see that the md device is capable of reading with >120 MB/s.
> >
> > I did this with these two commands.
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1MB
> > dd if=/dev/md1 of=/dev/null bs=1M
>
> Try changing /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio = 1

$cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
1


$dstat -D md1 -d 5
--dsk/md1--
_read _writ
18M 18M
0 0
820k 101M
18M 113M
26M 73M
26M 110M
32M 100M
19M 111M
13M 117M
13M 142M
32M 88M
26M 99M
38M 58M

No change. Even setting dirty_ratio to 100 didn't show any difference.


With the cfq scheduler and slice_idle = 24 (trial and error) I get better
results. Itried this before, but the overall throughput was a bit lower than
with deadline.

It seems that I can not tune deadline to get the samet behaviour.

--dsk/md1--
_read _writ
18M 18M
25M 77M
51M 65M
51M 47M
62M 45M
53M 28M
45M 43M
46M 47M
47M 42M
51M 41M
38M 51M
51M 40M
45M 40M
58M 42M
69M 41M
72M 42M
122M 0
141M 340k
--dsk/md1--
_read _writ
139M 562k
136M 0
141M 13k
64M 0
1638B 104M
0 110M
0 122M
0 104M
0 108M

The last numbers are for reading/writing only.

Ralf
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