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Adam Kocoloski commented on COUCHDB-767:
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Hi Damien, the link you sent refers to writes. Readers can definitely make
progress during an fsync.
> do a non-blocking file:sync
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>
> Key: COUCHDB-767
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-767
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Database Core
> Affects Versions: 0.11
> Reporter: Adam Kocoloski
> Fix For: 1.1
>
> Attachments: 767-async-fsync.patch, async_fsync.patch
>
>
> I've been taking a close look at couch_file performance in our production
> systems. One of things I've noticed is that reads are occasionally blocked
> for a long time by a slow call to file:sync. I think this is unnecessary. I
> think we could do something like
> handle_call(sync, From, #file{name=Name}=File) ->
> spawn_link(fun() -> sync_file(Name, From) end),
> {noreply, File};
> and then
> sync_file(Name, From) ->
> {ok, Fd} = file:open(Name, [read, raw]),
> gen_server:reply(From, file:sync(Fd)),
> file:close(Fd).
> Does anyone see a downside to this? Individual clients of couch_file still
> see exactly the same behavior as before, only readers are not blocked by
> syncs initiated in the db_updater process. When data needs to be flushed
> file:sync is _much_ slower than spawning a local process and opening the file
> again -- in the neighborhood of 1000x slower even on Linux with its
> less-than-durable use of vanilla fsync.
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