[gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously 15-20MB/s. I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and I've tried re-mounting the FS w/ "nobarriers" but the performance didn't improve. I've alre

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Jason Weisberger
Hello,I just had the same problem.  I switched to XFS about two weeks ago, and all I've heard out of my hard drive since then is churning and grinding.  Untarring large files is multitudes slower, even a simple emerge --sync takes extra time.  Booting was also much slower.  I never measured through

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously 15-20MB/s. I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and I've tried re-mounting the FS w/ "nobarriers" but the performance didn

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:11 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? > > I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously > > 15-20MB/s. > > I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/28/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone here, who uses XFS fs, experiencing slow filesystem writes? I'm seeing throughput of like 4-3MB/s instead of like previously 15-20MB/s. I have read that there was some thing about "barriers" and I've tried re-mounting the FS w/ "nobarr

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 10:37, Richard Fish wrote: > fs.xfs.xfssyncd_centisecs = 500 Mine is set at 3000 by default, why is yours set at 500? -- Regards, Mick pgpHuZeFz4OYK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
There are a number of things you can do to speed up XFS. # /dev/sda2 / xfs logbufs=8,logbsize=262144,biosize=16,noatime,nodiratime 0 1 Try this :) On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 August 2006 10:37, Richard Fish wrote: fs.xfs.xfss

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So.. it doesn't give me any clues there. However, doing Reads is OK. I get good performance when eg: copying a file from the XFS partition to another partition/drive. How about the output of: lsattr -Ra /home 2>dev/null | grep -v -e "-

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Jeff Grant
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 and http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz These are two articles that indeed led me to believe that XFS was the way to go - and here, I'm also experiencing some dreadful performance - tar/untar performance specifically. What to do.. .what

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/29/06, Jeff Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: These are two articles that indeed led me to believe that XFS was the way to go - and here, I'm also experiencing some dreadful performance - tar/untar performance specifically. Can you define "dreadful"? Are you seeing the same results (fast r

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Jeff Grant
You are correct, sir. Read times move at a nice clip - but untar/writes seem to get cut almost in half. Just an observation - as I do not have any solid data analysis atm - just a matter of scratching my skull whilst I listen to what seems to be some serious HD churning. -Jeff Richard Fish wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:54 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So.. it doesn't give me any clues there. However, doing Reads is OK. I > > get good performance when eg: copying a file from the XFS partition to > > another partition/drive. > > How abo

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I've already updated it to the latest based on the suspend2 version. $uname -r 2.6.17-suspend2-r4 $eix xfsprogs Available versions: 2.7.3 2.7.11 2.8.10 Installed: 2.8.10 If not mistaken, the issue, (or barriers if not mistaken) was introduced in the 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $ mount | grep xfs /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw) Hmm, I missed this before. "nobarrier" should be showing up here. Try: mount /home -o remount,nobarrier -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
nobarrier went into 2.6.17 I believe (kernel related change) and was discussed on the XFS mailing list. On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 02:35, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $ mount | grep xfs /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/30/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 02:35, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ mount | grep xfs > > /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw) > > Hmm, I missed this before. "nobarrier" should be showing up here. Try: > > mou

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes

2006-08-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I've already updated it to the latest based on the suspend2 version. $uname -r 2.6.17-suspend2-r4 $eix xfsprogs Available versions: 2.7.3 2.7.11 2.8.10 Installed: 2.8.10 If not mistaken

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue?

2006-08-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ mount | grep xfs > > /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw) > > Hmm, I missed this before. "nobarrier" should be showing up here. Try: > > mount /home -o remount,nobarrier > I did ment

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue?

2006-08-30 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ mount | grep xfs > > /dev/hda6 on /home type xfs (rw) > > Hmm, I missed this before. "nobarrier" should be showing up here. Try:

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS FileSystem - Slow Writes - GNOME/nautilus Issue? (SOLVED w/ ReFORMAT)

2006-08-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:38 -0700, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > On 8/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just re-formatted my partitions and moved things around. Things are looking up. Meaning, I am able to achieve good write/read speeds which is where i was previously. 15-20MB/s on b