Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Samuel
On 02/12/11 15:14, krz...@gmail.com wrote: I've upgraded to newest kernel 3.1.2 but problem is not fixed. As btrfs is an experimental filesystem I don't believe that fixes are backported to those stable releases, they only go into Linus's tree for his next release (3.2 in this case). So I'm

Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Samuel
On 24/11/11 12:00, Chris Samuel wrote: You're running quite an old kernel btrfs wise - it would be very interesting to see if you have the same issue with Linus's current git version (which has the latest btrfs code) or wait for 3.2-rc3. 3.2-rc3 is now out, Linus is after testers around the

btrfs and load (sys)

2011-11-23 Thread krz...@gmail.com
I've been using btrfs for two months now. Every day between 02:00 and 08:00 I rsync some 300GB data (milions of files) to btrfs device and then make snapshot. Next day i rsync again 300GG little changed (rsync in place). First days it worked perfectly. Then loadavg (sys load) started to rise. Now,

Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-11-23 Thread krz...@gmail.com
Yes, yesterday I've umouted partition and re-mounted it. Nothing has changed this night. You can look at my load graphs here: http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4661/33737291.png http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2742/46527625.png On the second one blue is SYS load. I bet you can reasily spot

Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-11-23 Thread Phillip Susi
On 11/23/2011 9:43 AM, krz...@gmail.com wrote: What all those btrfs benchmark does not tell you that its performance decreases (sys load increases) with growing size of btree. Creating btrfs filesystem is instantaneous because initial tree is just nothing... While something is clearly wrong,

Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-11-23 Thread krz...@gmail.com
I've rebooted server and run backup to btrfs partition again. It seems that problem is gone, high sys load does not occur now. So it is some bug in btrfs... Before reboot server had 30 days uptime so its really not much. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-btrfs in

Re: btrfs and load (sys)

2011-11-23 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: Another possibility I *think* is that you could try 3.1 with Chris Mason's for-linus git branch pulled into it.  Hopefully someone who knows the procedure better than I can correct me on this! :-) My method is: - use 3.1.1